On Feb 6, 2015, at 4:23 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki <ma...@linux-mips.org> wrote: > This consideration made me realise I've had a patch outstanding for some > 10 years to convert all the `BAL x' instructions there to `BLTZAL $0, x'. > This has always been a good idea in case implementations recognised the > special case and avoided involving branch prediction, and I believe it has > become even more apparent with r6 calling it NAL.
Ick, no.
