I kinda agree, but I'm too incompetent in the matter. :-)

However, I was simply asking if, on amd64, kencc uses the 6 registers that
the abi deserves to the parameters.
As far as I've understood only BP is used (for the first argument, if
integer).

Can you confirm?



Giacomo

2016-02-02 1:36 GMT+01:00 Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>:

>
> On 1 February 2016 at 23:34, Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it> wrote:
>
>>
>> Is it correct to say that this means that the Plan9 compiler suite
>> *never* follows the sysV calling convention documented at section 3.2.3 of
>> AMD64 ABI http://www.x86-64.org/documentation/abi.pdf and always pushes
>> parameters to the stack?
>
>
> On amd64, the first parameter, if an integer, is passed in RARG, which is
> actually BP.
> The RISC machines generally pass the first parameter, if an integer, in a
> register.
>
> In general, the compiler suite never follows conventions prescribed by
> apparent maniacs.
> In particular, varargs/stdargs should (in 2000, let alone 2016) be really
> easy: lay down the ... parameters on the stack as an array in memory.
> Done. Instead ABIs give pages of filth that try to work out where things
> are for the va_x macro calls,
> because the ABI insists on following the same calling convention
> for vararg/stdarg functions as might be used for other functions with
> fixed parameters: parameter passing in registers, special rules for
> structs, special rules for structs that fit in the parameter registers,
> special rules for floating-point values. Absurd.
>