Re: mips32_flush_cache routine corrupts CP0_STATUS with gcc-2.96

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, 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?

 For me, a "flush" is both (i.e., as Gleb noticed, that's what functions
with the word in names do).  For a lone write back or invalidation, I
would use these terms respectively.

 Well, for the R3k the term is unambiguous anyway...

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