[m-dev.] for discussion: proposed reduction in global registers on x86

[Ralph Becket]

Julien Fischer, Thursday,  8 November 2007:
> 
> I am proposing to reduce the number of registers that we reserve on
> x86 machines for use as global registers in non-PIC Mercury code from
> three to two.  In such code we currently reserve %esi, %edi and %ebx.
> For PIC we can only use two anyway, since there %ebx is use to
> hold the pointer to the GOT.

I don't have a problem with that.

-- Ralph
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