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Subject: Re: [9fans] Fresh (relatively speaking) Graphviz
Date: Wed,  5 Mar 2008 23:07:40 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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> i don't know whether, in the gcc port for plan 9,
> david changed the register saving conventions to
> match plan 9's.  i carefully avoided the issue in the
> snippet above, trashing only the return register %eax.

I remember distinctly that he was obliged to recompile the entire APE
library to make sure it obeyed the GCC function call conventions, I
thought it involved considerable differences.  But, as I mentioned, I
lost track of his description and I don't think I ever really
understood the details :-(

++L