"Tal Agmon" <Tal.Agmon@xxxxxxx> writes: > The manual says: > You can define a local register variable with a specified register like > this: > register int *foo asm ("a5"); > > My question: is foo must be a pointer or can I define for example: > register int y asm ("a5"); Both are legal. > I'm asking this because in gcc-3.3.2 I saw (in a very simple program > with no reason not the preserve a register) that a5 was not > preserved for y, and when I defined it as in the first example, a5 > WAS preserved for foo. I don't understand what you mean by "preserve", so I can't comment on this... > -- Falk