Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] simplify global register save/restore

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 02/26/2010 07:32 PM, Paul Brook wrote:
> > >  You could still use them for local register variables, but I can prepare
> > >  a patch to remove them (unless you do that yourself).
> I'm not sure what you mean by a "local register variable".

I'm thinking of using

  register blah blah asm(AREG1);

as a local variable to work around deficiencies in GCC's register 
allocator.  I've seen that elsewhere though not in QEMU.

If you prefer to remove everything, fine.

Paolo