On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:12:51AM +0100, Daniel Towner wrote: > Why is an anti-dependence used to enforce the ordering of the branch and > the subsequent instruction?
Because gcc doesn't target true vliw machines, and given strict program ordering of insn, anti-dependence is correct. > ... and if I changed it, would this break other ports? Yes. You need to be special-casing branches in your backend's bundling hooks. r~