On Friday 19 April 2013 13:52:41 Abid, Hafiz wrote:
> > erm, so you didn't write this patch, but Nathan Froyd did ?
> 
> Yes but he no longer works for Mentor Graphics. We have been carrying
> this patch for some time in our internal branches. I just put it in
> latest code and tested it.

it's probably a safe assumption you guys know a lot more about the powerpc ISA 
than myself.  i don't see anything wrong with the patch, so feel free to push 
it.
-mike