- machine-dependent way. PowerPC, ARM and MIPS architectures use a
- dedicated register to hold the pointer to the 'global_data'
- structure: r29 on PowerPC, r8 on ARM and k0 on MIPS. The x86
- architecture does not use such a register; instead, the pointer to
- the 'global_data' structure is passed as 'argv[-1]' pointer.
+ machine-dependent way. PowerPC, ARM, MIPS, Blackfin and Nios II
+ architectures use a dedicated register to hold the pointer to the
+ 'global_data' structure: r2 on PowerPC, r8 on ARM, k0 on MIPS,
+ P3 on Blackfin and gp on Nios II. The x86 architecture does not
+ use such a register; instead, the pointer to the 'global_data'
+ structure is passed as 'argv[-1]' pointer.