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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] which register is used as FP on the x86
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:31:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c1777afc7d72d155cf0b95c13df7021@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f158dc6704062607275e56ba4e@mail.gmail.com>

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the function that owns them knows it creates them,
and can modify its behaviour accordingly, rather
than pushing the requirement everywhere.

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From: Latchesar Ionkov <lionkov@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] which register is used as FP on the x86
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 10:27:53 -0400
Message-ID: <f158dc6704062607275e56ba4e@mail.gmail.com>

This approach doesn't work if the compiler supports variable length
arrays. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your preferences)
the Plan9 compiler doesn't suport them.

Thanks,
    Lucho

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:53:48 +0100, rog@vitanuova.com <rog@vitanuova.com> wrote:
> 
> no register is dedicated as a frame pointer.
> 
> if you know the PC, you can find out the FP from the SP.
> 
>

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-26 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-25 17:30 ron minnich
2004-06-25 17:53 ` rog
2004-06-26 11:56   ` Andrew Lynch
2004-06-26 12:35     ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-06-26 12:35     ` Charles Forsyth
2004-06-26 14:27   ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-06-26 17:31     ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2004-07-03  7:17 ` [9fans] cpuserver: dhcp for authsrv, rio, users, ssh, factotum, pull Stephen Wynne
2004-07-03 16:37   ` [9fans] andrey mirtchovski
2004-07-05  4:06     ` [9fans] Stephen Wynne
2004-07-05 17:23       ` [9fans] andrey mirtchovski
2004-07-05 20:33       ` [9fans] Eric Grosse

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