Fixed or forbidden register 3 (bx) was spilled

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Sep 12, 2001, Jean-Marc Valin <jean-marc.valin@infospace.com> wrote:

> I know this has been discussed before, but I think my case is different.
> I get the error "fixed or forbidden register 3 (bx) was spilled for
> class BREG.", but I DO NOT clobber an input/output register.

Are you compiling with -fPIC?  ebx is the PIC register, which means
it's a fixed register with -fPIC>

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