5 Sep
2017
5 Sep
'17
2:28 a.m.
with one exception, Clem. Forsyth's port of Ken's C compiler let you
allocate r14 and r15 for your own purposes. Hence in Plan 9 they were used
for 'current process' and 'current core'. As I understand it gcc
allows
this too.
Every once in a while it's nice to have that level of control. We gave it
up when we got plan 9 running with gcc and clang and it was painful ...
ron