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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
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On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Eric Christopher wrote:

> (personally I think if we want to load a constant into a register using
> a macro we should use li, not la).

 Absolutely.  Sometimes it may be hard to fulfil, though, e.g. the address 
supplied may be a result of macro expansion at the preprocessing stage and 
depending on some options it may expand either to a constant or to 
something else, e.g. a symbol.  Making the instruction a part of the 
expansion may be difficult or at least obscure.  And a constant is a valid 
address after all. ;-)

  Maciej