Re: Global registers
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:25:30PM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
>
> I am the maintainer of clisp, a package that has had portability a problem on
> sparc. I have found a solution to the problem, but it involves disabling the
> allocation of various globals to registers. clisp uses the registers g4-g7 to
> store such things as it's stack pointer. These registers are obviously being
> clobbered somewhere. Are there any other registers available that could be
> used? I suspect not... Or can anyone point me to documentation on when these
> registers need to be saved?
Looks to me like clisp has the ability to save these registers, you just
need to enable the support.
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