In O3, a nop is used to carry faults down the pipeline that didn't originate
from an instruction. If the instruction doesn't do anything, that is just
returns NoFault, but doesn't have IsNop set, the NoFault will overwrite the
fault that's being sent down and nothing will happen.
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-// Copyright (c) 2006 The Regents of The University of Michigan
+// Copyright (c) 2006-2007 The Regents of The University of Michigan
// All rights reserved.
//
// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
Nop(const char *mnem, ExtMachInst _machInst, OpClass __opClass) :
SparcStaticInst(mnem, _machInst, __opClass)
{
+ flags[IsNop] = true;
}
// All Nop instructions do the same thing, so this can be