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From: Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] FP register usage in Plan9 assembler
Date: Mon,  1 Feb 2016 22:38:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOw7k5hHmw4U29pHN0+SSCKdYUqR61Fd9s6JRvsemAEu+-VxTg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHL7psFg6JgatGw3hQb93kpkrZFGq7vtcz7eMkWWbM0cNfMGzA@mail.gmail.com>

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On 1 February 2016 at 16:47, Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it> wrote:

>     MOVQ    info+8(FP), BP
>     MOVL    AX, 0(BP)
>     MOVL    BX, 4(BP)
>     MOVL    CX, 8(BP)
>     MOVL    DX, 12(BP)
>     RET
>
> What I miss is where "info" comes from.
>

the syntax name+offset(FP) defines name as the given offset from the
virtual frame pointer.
The actual offset in machine code is set by the loader (8l, 6l, etc.),
after taking account of the save area size, for example.
The name is stored in a symbol table mainly for use by the debugger.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-01 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-01 16:47 Giacomo Tesio
2016-02-01 22:38 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2016-02-01 22:44   ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-01 22:48 ` cinap_lenrek
2016-02-01 23:34   ` Giacomo Tesio
2016-02-02  0:36     ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-02  0:58       ` Giacomo Tesio
2016-02-02 12:39         ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2016-02-02 16:42 ` Steven Stallion
2016-02-02 17:16   ` lucio
2016-02-03 15:24   ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-03 15:51     ` Steven Stallion
2016-02-03 16:36       ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-04 10:08     ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2016-02-04 12:04       ` lucio
2016-02-04 15:58         ` Ryan Gonzalez
2016-02-04 16:09           ` lucio
2016-02-04 18:06             ` Ryan Gonzalez
2016-02-04 18:14               ` balaji
2016-02-04 18:28             ` Ryan Gonzalez
2016-02-04 19:31           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2016-02-04 12:24       ` Brantley Coile
2016-02-04 12:53         ` lucio
2016-02-04 14:57           ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-04 14:05         ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2016-02-04 14:10           ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2016-02-04 14:30             ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2016-02-04 15:07         ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-04 15:16           ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-04 15:11         ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-04 15:22           ` erik quanstrom
2016-02-04 15:26             ` Charles Forsyth
2016-02-04 20:34               ` erik quanstrom

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