Re: PATCH: Support x86 pseudo registers

Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-12T08:30:54Z

> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:23:07 +0000
> Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
> msnyder@vmware.com
>
> I just realized that this change means that $sp is now just
> a 16-bit word of $esp, instead of a pseudo-register resolving to
> either $esp/$rsp (32-bit/64-bit). I can't say it is actually wrong to
> have it that way

I think it's very wrong, because it means we no longer have a generic
stack pointer register, at least not on x86. Is that true?