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From: "Bill McEnaney" <bill@rkirkpat.net>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
		aparna@cse.iitb.ac.in, gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: insn
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080307185014.EA5D37185C@saratoga.rkirkpat.net> (raw)

Why not write "inst" instead "insn?"  

> > pls tell what exactly  insn means.
> 
> "insn" means "instruction".  Inside of GCC, we talk so much about
> instructions that it is a lot easier to say "insns", just like you
> say "pls" instead of "please".
> 
> 
> Segher
> 
> 

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             reply	other threads:[~2008-03-07 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-07 18:50 Bill McEnaney [this message]
2008-03-07 19:02 ` insn Tom St Denis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-07 19:24 insn Bill McEnaney
2008-03-07 18:50 insn Bill McEnaney
2008-03-07  7:24 insn aparna
2008-03-07 18:40 ` insn Segher Boessenkool
2008-03-08  2:17 ` insn Ian Lance Taylor

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