From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fresh (relatively speaking) Graphviz
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:23:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4d837aec8140cb00faf5ac9485f9f93@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b1fa5d59953a1fc8b1658721bff62d99@terzarima.net>
> i thought gcc typically required BP to be used as a frame pointer,
> whereas 8c simply uses it as another register, which is particularly
> helpful on the grotty x86. (general-purpose registers? pah!)
I don't think that's mandatory, but I am no authority. Using the MSC
compiler, back in 8086 days, one set BP to SP and used it as a stack
frame pointer. It's conceivable that GCC used the same convention,
all C compilers i was familiar with on the 8086 behaved like that.
++L
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-05 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-05 12:26 lucio
2008-03-05 18:00 ` Russ Cox
2008-03-05 18:51 ` P9GCC: APE library (Was: [9fans] Fresh (relatively speaking) Graphviz) lucio
2008-03-05 18:55 ` [9fans] Fresh (relatively speaking) Graphviz lucio
2008-03-05 20:58 ` Russ Cox
2008-03-05 21:07 ` lucio
2008-03-05 21:14 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-03-05 21:23 ` lucio [this message]
2008-03-06 4:47 ` lucio
2008-03-06 4:55 ` P9GCC progress (Was: [9fans] Fresh (relatively speaking) Graphviz) lucio
2008-03-06 17:07 ` [9fans] Fresh (relatively speaking) Graphviz Russ Cox
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=a4d837aec8140cb00faf5ac9485f9f93@proxima.alt.za \
--to=lucio@proxima.alt.za \
--cc=9fans@cse.psu.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).