How does pre memory C code work on K8.

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Fri Mar 12 09:41:01 CET 2004


On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 maillists at petrolhead.com wrote:

> Something has been troubling me for some time which is how the code manages
> to run before the memory controllers are configured. The assembler I can see
> has no accesses to memory, but the C code does, is their some magic gcc
> switch that makes it be entirely register based?

check out romcc. uses no memory. very neat.

ron




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