From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1116 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2008 18:40:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 1108 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Mar 2008 18:40:08 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from gate.crashing.org (HELO gate.crashing.org) (63.228.1.57) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:39:50 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gate.crashing.org (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m27IUbSp012085; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:30:38 -0600 In-Reply-To: <49317.10.11.2.68.1204874664.squirrel@www.cse.iitb.ac.in> References: <49317.10.11.2.68.1204874664.squirrel@www.cse.iitb.ac.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <43c4b838b43a127b6bbc0aad7495bee6@kernel.crashing.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org From: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: insn Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:40:00 -0000 To: aparna@cse.iitb.ac.in X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2008-03/txt/msg00072.txt.bz2 > 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