What is an 'insn'?

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From: Donald R. Newcomb
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1993 20:37

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This can probably be classed as a 'Dumb Question' <tm> but just
what is an 'insn'? I have been reading the gcc documentation and
find it referred to very frequently but have not found the place
(in 20 files) where it is defined. As far as I can tell it is 
the name (or type?) of a machine instruction as represented in
RTL. Is this even close? Where is this defined in the documentation?

Thanks,
-- 
Donald R. Newcomb              * University of Southern Mississippi
dnewcomb@whale.st.usm.edu      * "The God who gave us life gave us liberty
dnewcomb@falcon.st.usm.edu     * at the same time."  T. Jefferson (1774)

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