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Is gp == sscratch from the RISC-V privileged spec ?

In D5178#110085, @kib wrote:

Is gp == sscratch from the RISC-V privileged spec ?

gp is global pointer (used by compiler in userland only).
sscratch is a temporary register (not related to gp at all).

sscratch is used to exchange kernel/userland SP

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