ABI documentation

Jim Wilson wilson@tuliptree.org
Tue Aug 26 20:58:00 GMT 2003


SRUTHY C.N. wrote:
>     will the ABI documentation same  for all the intel pentium series? if
> not can you send any links for Pentium 3 machine..

In general, yes, the ABI will be the same.  Otherwise, we would not be 
able to emit code that runs on any x86 without making the compiler a lot 
more complicated.

There are special situations where the ABI may change if it depends on 
new architecture features, e.g. some of the SIMD stuff depends on 
whether you have SSE registers or SSE2 registers, etc.
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com



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