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by pthariensflame 1850 days ago
It’s not a standard ARM register; it’s implementation-defined and nobody gave it a meaningful name. It appears to do nothing much.
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Then why not unofficially standardize its use in GCC and Clang's register-pooling subsystem?
Because GCC and Clang don't get to decide what hardware does with the register…