Painful problems with -fpic implementation on powerpc-sysv

[Richard Henderson]

On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 08:01:03PM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>   Register r2 is reserved for system use and should not be changed by
>   application code.
> 
> I don't know if that gives us the leeway we need to claim it.

I doubt it.  The Sparc ABI uses the same language for a register
Solaris uses for the thread context pointer.

Interesting to know, though.  Geoff, thought about using this in
glibc for THREAD_SELF?


r~