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You can certainly change it. But should you? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] QuaternionsRock 1 points 5 months ago

That seems like a better fit for an intrinsic, doesn’t it? If it truly is a register, then referencing it through a (presumably global) variable doesn’t semantically align with its location, and if it’s a special memory location, then it should obviously be referenced through a pointer.