RE: register variables: list?

[skaller <skaller at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 18:44 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 23 October 2007 18:25, skaller wrote:
> 
> > In
> > 
> >
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.2.2/gcc/Explicit-Reg-Vars.html#Explicit-Re
> g-Vars
> > 
> > it explains how to use register variables .. but doesn't list them.
> > 
> > Is there a document somewhere which lists
> > 
> > a) each CPU macro name
> 
>   Don't at all understand what you're referring to there.  Macro?  You mean a
> #define?  Name of the cpu?  I don't see anything referring to the cpu name in
> the explicit reg vars docs.

Sorry, I thought it was obvious.. I want to write:

#if defined(AMD64)
register void *stack asm ("%rsp");
#elsif defined(X86)
register void *stack asm ("%esp");
#elsif defined (SPARC)
register void *stack asm ("%stack");
....
#else
#error "CPU NOT SUPPORTED"
#endif

Hmm .. actually I just checked in more depth how Boehm does this,
and it is clever enough to avoid all this:

int * nested_sp()
{
    int dummy;
    return(&dummy);
}

Ouch .. I should have thought of that! And he's using
setjmp to save registers plus other hacks I can steal.. :)

However I may want to reserve a register, so I still
need a list with ABI details (which ones are caller-saved).

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