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To: Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net>
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From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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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