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From: C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
To: rs_rlab@mail.ru, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] return vlong
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 16:15:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46ef19883ba88107219763ef1638933c@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5114550406.20050520175310@mail.ru>

>>        MOVL .ret+0(FP),BX
>>but I not understand what is '.ret', where it's placed.

it's put in the symbol table as the name for the value at 0 offset from
the virtual frame pointer (actually 4(SP) on the 386, the offset of the first parameter,
since 0(SP) has the return address).
otherwise the name has no significance.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-20 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-20 14:53 Sergey Reva
2005-05-20 15:00 ` Russ Cox
2005-05-20 15:07   ` jmk
2005-05-20 15:15 ` C H Forsyth [this message]

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