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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:46:36 -0700
From: Scott Anderson <scott_anderson@mvista.com>
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To: Raghava Raju <vraghava_raju@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: program counter...
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Raghava Raju wrote:
>      I was unable to find the registers for
>   program counter,stack pointer. Which registers
>   I should use to access these values in powerpc.

Er, there isn't really an program counter register that you can read.
The only way I know to find it out the value of the internal "Next
Instruction Address" is to do a bl and then look at the LR (link
register) before doing a blr.

As far as the stack pointer goes, the PowerPC ABI (Application Binary
Interface) states that gpr1 should be used as the stack pointer and
therefor, it is...

    Scott Anderson
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