Re: mips32_flush_cache routine corrupts CP0_STATUS with gcc-2.96

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 12:02:27AM +0100, Dominic Sweetman wrote:

> PS: my standard appeal.  When you say you 'flush' a cache do you mean
> invalidate, write-back, or both?  If (as I suspect) not all of you
> mean the same thing, should you not instead speak of 'invalidate' and
> 'writeback'... sloppy language surely leads to sloppy programming?

I already had discussions with 68k people about this problem of
terminology.  It seems there is no unambigous terms for the whole
``cachology'' in the industry.

  Ralf