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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Jani Kokkonen <Jani.Kokkonen@huawei.com>, Claudio Fontana <claudio.fontana@huawei.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 05/24/2013 10:08 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Where's the waste? The procedure calling standard mandates that we
> set FP up, so it's not like we can use it as a general purpose
> register anywhere.

Well, the calling standard is another document that's not available yet, so
obviously I don't know the rationale for that decision.  But it does seem like
a register performing no useful function...


r~