How do you alias a register?
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 3:08 amParallella Community
Supercomputing for Everyone
https://parallella.org/forums/
How do you alias a register?
Page 1 of 1
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 3:08 amRe: How do you alias a register?
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 1:40 pm#define will work if you use gcc on a file with a .S extension. (gcc will run the file through the C preprocessor before invoking the assembler.)
Re: How do you alias a register?
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 2:25 pmRe: How do you alias a register?
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 2:51 pmYou're welcome.
I don't know if there are alternatives to using #define which might have advantages. I just stumbled upon the technique while looking through some example code. (Until I saw the example, I hadn't even realised you could use gcc, rather than as, and thus make use of the preprocessor.)
I don't know if there are alternatives to using #define which might have advantages. I just stumbled upon the technique while looking through some example code. (Until I saw the example, I hadn't even realised you could use gcc, rather than as, and thus make use of the preprocessor.)