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From: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>
To: Dmitry Bely <dmitry.bely@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Compiler bug?
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:03:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5022A9FE.4050006@frisch.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMT7qiTNb651mvo3+iOX5fvGbWXv5yotMUBM2bvXkEURB=--bg@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/08/2012 06:03 PM, Dmitry Bely wrote:
> One more question if you don't mind. Why FPU registers are not saved
> before caml_garbage_collection? What guarantees that they are not
> destroyed inside?

I'm not sure, someone else would have to reply!  I guess that these 
registers are supposed to be preserved by the callee in the x64 ABI (and 
obviously, they don't hold pointers to OCaml values, so they don't have 
to be tracked by the GC).

-- Alain

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-08 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-06 10:04 Dmitry Bely
2012-08-06 10:11 ` Alain Frisch
2012-08-06 10:20   ` Dmitry Bely
2012-08-06 10:34     ` Alain Frisch
2012-08-06 11:03       ` Dmitry Bely
2012-08-06 11:32         ` Alain Frisch
2012-08-06 12:16           ` Dmitry Bely
2012-08-07  1:35           ` Cedric Cellier
2012-08-08 16:03           ` Dmitry Bely
2012-08-08 18:03             ` Alain Frisch [this message]
2012-08-08 18:22               ` Jesper Louis Andersen
2012-08-08 18:40                 ` Dmitry Bely
2012-08-08 19:29                   ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2012-08-08 23:34                 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2012-08-09  0:53                 ` Francois Berenger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-17 23:14 compiler bug? Dan Koppel
2006-05-17 23:33 ` [Caml-list] " John Carr
2006-05-18 17:15 ` Xavier Leroy
2006-05-18 17:34   ` Jacques Carette
2006-05-18 17:46     ` Xavier Leroy
2006-05-18 19:31       ` Jacques Carette
2006-05-18 20:07         ` David Brown
2006-05-18 20:15           ` Jacques Carette
2006-05-18 20:20           ` Alain Frisch
2006-05-18 18:19     ` skaller
2006-05-18 18:53       ` Jacques Carette
2006-05-19  1:47         ` skaller
2006-05-19  2:17           ` Brian Hurt
2006-05-19  3:11             ` skaller
2006-05-19 16:48           ` Jacques Carette
2006-05-19 19:10             ` skaller

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