Subject: Re: gp register
To: Trevor Blackwell <tlb@eecs.harvard.edu>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@BALVENIE.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
List: port-alpha
Date: 08/10/1995 13:09:18
> Should the gp register be the same for all code in the kernel?

i _think_ so.  at least right now.  (at some point in the future, that
might change.)


If the next question will be: why do most things use setgp's?
i'm pretty sure the answer is: alpha calling conventions.

the only place it's "my fault" is the assembly code, and for that i
just copied the style from mach...  8-)


chris