Re: register long sp asm("r1") incorrect

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/15/2010 01:04 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> It's true that most other use of it we have are global scope (local_paca
> in r13, glibc use of r2/r13, etc...) afaik, but since r1 itself is the
> stack pointer always, I think they pretty much guarantee it works.
> 

It should work, because r1, being the stack pointer, is already marked a
reserved register in gcc.

The reference Pavel is citing bascially states that gcc won't globally
reserve the register, which is true, but it is already reserved anyway.

	-hpa

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