Register Symbols
The SPARC architecture supports register symbols, which are symbols that document, and optionally initialize, global registers. A symbol table entry for a register symbol contains the entries that are listed in the following table.
Table 14-25 SPARC: ELF Symbol Table Entry: Register Symbol
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Index into the string table for the name of the symbol, or the value
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Register number. See the ABI manual for integer register assignments. |
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Unused ( |
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Bind is typically |
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Unused ( |
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The register values that are defined for SPARC are listed in the following table.
Table 14-26 SPARC: ELF Register Numbers
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Absence of an entry for a particular global register means that the particular global register is not used at all by the object.