Re: What is an 'insn'?

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From: Fergus Henderson
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1993 15:53

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dnewcomb@whale.st.usm.edu (Donald R. Newcomb) writes:

>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?

Yes, this is pretty close.

>Where is this defined in the documentation?

In the "Insns" section in the "RTL Representation" chapter of
the GNU CC Manual.  (If you have the stand-alone info reader,
you can use the command "info gcc rtl insn" to get there.)

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Fergus Henderson                     fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU

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