On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Matthew Hicks <[email protected]> wrote:

> I much prefer the nop hacks as it made debugging things much easier.
> I could just insert a special nop-based sequence and find out what was
> going on.  The nop hacks are great because they don't require any
> library support, or extra hardware, and they don't perturb the system.
>

Fair point.  Plus I suppose a testsuite could just call a function that
chooses which method to use.

There ought to be a testsuite that's maintained separately from any of the
implementations, and I figure such a testsuite ought not to use the nop
hack.  I figure it could make it optional, though, and allow some
implementations to support it.

-Pete
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