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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Gilad Benjamini <yaelgilad@myrealbox.com>
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Subject: Re: Static variables and "gp"
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On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:46:07AM +0000, Gilad Benjamini wrote:

> Who said user-code ?
> Strictly kernel

Well ...  Register $28 is already used for the current pointer.  You'd
have to get rid of the $28 optimization first before GP optimization could
work.

  Ralf