On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 07:45:20 -0500, John McKown wrote:

>I will go with what another replier
>said: "If you use it, you must restore it". 

That was me.

>The caller has a right to
>expect all the registers to come back after the CALL with the same contents
>that they had before the call. With the exception of R0, R1, R14, and R15.

The linkage conventions say that the high halves of registers 2 through 14 
are unchanged when you return to your caller.

>I guess I could put bits 32..64 into bits 0..31 of, say, R0.

Yes, you could do that.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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