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Date:      Sun, 31 Aug 1997 13:41:21 +0930
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net>
Cc:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PIC (was: shared libraries?) 
Message-ID:  <199708310411.NAA01087@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Aug 1997 19:33:49 MST." <199708310233.TAA00415@ducky.net> 

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> One thing that's always baffled me is, why does gcc insist
> on *dedicating* a register for the global offset table pointer?

Perhaps because if you don't know where it is, you can't load it in the 
first place?

mike





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