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From: Andy Walker <ja_walker@earthlink.net>
To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>,
 "Michael S. Zick" <mszick@goquest.com>
Subject: Re: An unusual Performance approach using Synthetic registers, and a request for guidance.
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 04:28:00 -0000
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On Friday 27 December 2002 10:07 pm, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Dec 27, 2002, "Michael S. Zick" <mszick@goquest.com> wrote:
> > So, I think (personal opinion here), using the %EBX register as the base
> > (frame pointer) of the synthetic register frames should be your first
> > choice.
>
> 'cept %EBX is used as the PIC base register, and you can't really
> remap that to a virtual register unless you change PLT entries.

Thank you, Alexandre.  

This is why I changed my mind and used ecx instead of ebx.

Andy