On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 04:37:28PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 22:53 +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > Every occurrence of r7 here is wrong (and some of the r6). > > Can you elucidate?
They were being used as condition registers rather than GPRs. > > Is there any reason to do this in assembler code at all? > > Is there any particular reason not to? Same reason most of the rest of the kernel is in C rather than assembly. Of course, a better question is why we don't just link libgcc... -Scott _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
