[LLVMdev] Register Allocation of Globals

[Nikhil Patil]

On 29/10/06, Chris Lattner <sabre at nondot.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Nikhil Patil wrote:
> > Is it possible to bind a physical register to a particular global value?
> For
> > instance, can I say that the global variable %omnipresent should be
> > allocated not to memory, but instead to register %EAX.
>
> GCC has an extension to do this (see its user manual) and we support this.
> Note that this does not guarantee that the register will always hold the
> value of the global: the guarantee only holds during inline asm blocks.


Great! Thanks for the pointer. I intend to blacklist this "global"
register during register allocation, so this should be good enough!

-Chris
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