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Re: Prologue analysis interface


> The frame pointer bits do involve some target heuristics.  I think we
> could do away with that, if we had reason to (i.e. an interesting
> target which didn't use a fixed register for this).  But I'm not
> suggesting it until we have such a target, hopefully not for a long
> time.

Not sure if this is relevant, but the HPPA ABI says that when there
is a frame pointer, it is either in r3 or r4, depending on the frame
size (IIRC). GCC doesn't follow the ABI, and always uses r3, but I am
pretty sure that the HP C compiler does follow that convention...

-- 
Joel


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