Scott Wood wrote: > Hmm. The comment says, "XER, CTR, and LR are currently listed as > clobbers because it's uncertain whether they will be clobbered." Maybe > it dates back to when the ABI was still being discussed? Timur, do you > recall? Nope, sorry. I'm sure we discussed this and looked at the code. My guess is that we weren't certain what the compiler was going to do at the time. I'm still a little confused. Which inline assembly code is clobbering LR? Are you talking about the "BL" instruction, which wasn't there before? -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm-ppc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
