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On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:16:33PM -0800, Geoff Keating wrote: > > > From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> > > Date: 18 Jan 2002 08:09:52 -0800 > > > Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> writes: > > > > > It will be %r2 for ELF. No register is available for AIX and I will > > > leave that unless someone can make a proposal. > > > > AIX is no issue. We don't determine the ABI, it's IBM's problem. > > glibc will work as before on AIX. > > > > Is %r2 currently unused? If this a break in the ABI? > > It is currently reserved for the system. I believe some programs use > it, but not many. But if it is reseerved by the ABI, then it is certainly their fault (remember fixing two or three packages which used %g6 on sparc). Jakub
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