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Re: Changing register for passing return value from function call



On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Arjan Koers wrote:

> There's just one function (normally main) that gets called by the
> system.
> My functions can call three system functions that return pointers
> (_malloc, _calloc, _realloc). 
> Some compiler directive to use %a0 that can be placed at the function
> delaration and at the function calls would be nice.

IMO it would be much easier to write a small assembly function that moved
the value returned from a0 to d0 than to fiddle with gcc. 

--joel
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