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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: PIC (was: shared libraries?)
From:       Mike Smith <mike () smith ! net ! au>
Date:       1997-08-31 4:23:21
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> One thing that's always baffled me is, why does gcc insist
> on *dedicating* a register for the global offset table pointer?

Perhaps because if you don't know where it is, you can't load it in the 
first place?

mike

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