Re: Convention about jump ?

[Antoine Eiche <antoine dot eiche at ulp dot u-strasbg dot fr>]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Antoine Eiche wrote:
>
> > I would like to know if it exists a convention about the assembly 
> > generation of jump statement.
> > More precisely, I would like to know if it's possible to find a jump 
> > which jumps to another function (the address of the jump is not an 
> > address which belongs of the current function) . I think we can write 
> > this kind of jump in assembly. But, does Gcc product this kind of jump ?
>
> Yes, for sibcalls.
A sibcall is used  when we don't need the result of a function call 
(tail recursion for instance) . Is it right ?
If it, does a sibcall branch to another instruction than the first of a 
function ?

I have search documentation about that, but I've not found interesting 
paper.
Have you got some links ?
> What's the problem?
It 's not really a problem, it's more for information.

Thanks,
Antoine