Re: Compiler Terminology

"Peter Flass" <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
15 Jul 2002 23:43:47 -0400

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From: "Peter Flass" <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 15 Jul 2002 23:43:47 -0400
Organization: Road Runner
References: 02-07-029
Keywords: design, registers
Posted-Date: 15 Jul 2002 23:43:46 EDT

Depends. What's the language/OS convention. *Someone* should save all
the registers the callee uses, but it could be the caller, the callee,
or both. For example the OS/390 convention is that the called program
saves all the registers.


Pallav Gupta wrote:
> Now my understanding is that between a function call, the compiler
> should generally save/restore ALL registers that the callee function
> uses. Correct? (Ofcourse there can be some global registers that need
> not be saved/restored say for instance the stack pointer)

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