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Re: MIPS Assembly.

Hans-Peter;

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:16:33PM -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> Ah.  But it does presumably have a a jump-to-register insn?
> (Checking...  Looks like "j REG" can be used according to
> mips.md:indirect_jump.)

Ok.

> Supposedly there's a register that can be loaded with the local
> symbol in the get_user and put_user asms, and the register
> marked as clobbered in the asm?

Yes, Just wonding why Linus changed the way this operates on i386
in 1998 of this. 

Note that his code also includes this comment:

linux/arch/i386/lib/getuser.S
/* 
 * These functions should not modify any other registers,
 * as they get called from within inline assembly.
 */

I don't know enough about these routines to know if this would apply on
MIPS ISA.

Cheers,

-=cj

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