Re: [9fans] bug in asm.ps

[Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com>]

Oh, I understand now.  You are correct.  Asm.ps is wrong.

> Ok, but what I meant is that the automatics are upside down growing from n
> to 0 as the memory grows. Of course if you call any functions, the SP points
> to the last space left for their arguments. As far as I understand if you dont
> call any functions, 0(SP) is the last automatic. If you dont have any
> automatics, SP points to the return PC. If you call any functions there is space
> for their args (probably for the args of the functions with the
> biggest number of args) and SP is pointing to the last space which
> will be the first arg, because
> they gro from 0 to n as the memory grows.
>
> On 3/6/06, Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com> wrote:
>> SP doesn't point to the last automatic on the stack.
>> Not only is the automatics on the local stack, but also
>> temporaries, like the ones to hold parameters to a function.
>> If you call any functions 4(SP) is the second parameter to functions.
>>
>>