Re: Cross-compiler for spim

larus@cs.wisc.edu
Tue, 8 Dec 1992 16:23:19 GMT

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From: larus@cs.wisc.edu
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 16:23:19 GMT
References: 92-12-023
Keywords: tools, sparc, assembler, comment

donawa@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Chris DONAWA) writes:
> ... spim expects that all function parameters are
> passed on the stack, whereas the MIPS C compiler does not always do this.


One correction: SPIM does NOT "expect" parameters to be passed on the
stack. SPIM is a machine simulator. It takes no position on where
software should pass parameters. I typically pass parameters in
registers, but have students generate code that passes them on the stack.


/Jim
[Jim Larus is the author of spim. -John]
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