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Re: [PATCH roland/arm-avoid-r9] ARM: Use r10 instead of r9.
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > looks like it should be r5-r8, r10. How was this patch tested?
>
> Oops, I caught most of those cases but missed the last couple.
> Now fixed on the branch.
>
> I haven't done any testing at all yet. I wanted to make sure you didn't
> have some broader objection to the change before I dealt with getting set
> up to do arm-linux-gnueabi builds and test runs. If you're not willing to
> approve on eyeball validation alone (which is eminently reasonable, of
> course), then I'll get my testing setup in order before asking again.
I think the principle is fine, but this does need testing as illustrated
by the above issue. (Unlike Richard's whole new implementations of some
string functions, I don't think there's any need for big-endian testing
here; testing for just one endianness suffices.)
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Joseph S. Myers
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