[openrisc] OR1200 implementation of l.sb and l.sh

[=?iso-8859-15?q?Mar=EDa=20Bolado?= <mbolado@teisa.unican.es>]

Hi!

I've been looking at the OR1200 rtl, and I've seen that when a l.sb insn, i.e,

 l.sb 0(r4), r5 // EA <- 0 + r4
		    // (EA) <- r5[7:0] 

or1200 writes a whole (re-ordinated) 32-bit word in cache. Thus, when you only 
want to write the byte 3 of a particular word, you are also writing bytes 0, 
1 and 2, so the rest of the bytes of the word are modified in cache, though 
they mustn't.

Could you please clear up this point?

Thank you very much

Marķa Bolado
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