Re: Compiler Recommendations

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Jan 4, 2008 4:40 AM, Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> Additionally, most modern compilers (at least on hardware like RISC with 
> a lot of registers) pass some of the parameters to a function in 
> registers. Usually the chip vendor or the OS vendor specify this. On 
> the Alpha chip, the first 6 parameters were always passed in registers, 
> with the exception of structs. It would get interesting if an int or 
> long was passed into a function that expected a double. That value 
> would be placed into the appropriate integer register, but the function 
> would grab the double out of a floating point register. This is easy to 
> do on code that does not use function prototypes. 

SPARC also passes first six args via registers.  iirc, i0 through i5... 
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen 
"Know something about everything and everything about something." 

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