On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 10:26:25PM +0000, Joel Soete wrote: ... >> What's wrong with "ci" variable? It's just another register. > well the idea is that "ci" variable is just there as a tmp variable just > used in this asm code, right. > so why not simply get rid of its declaration (btw save a line of code ;-)) > and just use a common temporay reg as r19? No - don't do that. Let the compiler do the work of allocating registers. It's really good at it. :) Much better than you and I combined. :) All we need to do is tell the compiler we need a register. cheers, grant -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
