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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:06:08AM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote:

> +	register long __v0 asm("$2"); 					\
> +	register long __a3 asm("$7"); 					\

The patch looks fine to me but as a word of warning - I'm using the same
code construct is also being used in the kernel but I've found it very
fragile wrt. misscompilation by gcc over the years ...

  Ralf