Re: Using %cr2 to reference "current"

Alan Cox
2001-11-07T14:10:56Z

> somehow encouraged by the compiler comparisions between gcc and intel's
> free compiler, which use the register passing for anything local
> to the actual code, where the speed gains are up to 20% im currently

I was under the impression intels compiler was profoundly non-free ?

> quite inclined to do the redo and finish the experiment.
> BTW.> It's not just asm fixpus that have to be done for this
> to work. For example all the c files with -fno-omit-frame-pointer

20% is a nice large number

Alan