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Standa Opichal wrote:
> Could we make the new binutils not to use d4 for the initial jump behind the
> file format header (the instruction in the first few bytes in a binary)?
> It should be easy enough to use one of the scratch registers, am I right?
> What about d1?

Let's go back the the old good days with some POKE !

With your favorite hex editor, open an executable produced by the GNU ld 
  for MiNT.
Go to offset $1c and replace the value $28 by $22
Go to offset $22 and replace the value $48 by $18

The initial jump will use d1 instead of d4 !

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Vincent Rivière