Reg ABI

[Michael Eager]

Anil Kumar wrote:
> I am looking at the assembly code generated by gcc.
> Based on the System V ABI Draft
> (http://www.caldera.com/developers/devspecs/) i am not
> able to figure out the conventions used. Maybe the
> draft is too old or incomplete. Where can i get the
> latest version of C and C++ ABIs? The gcc version
> which i am using is 3.2.2.

There is a base SVR4 ABI, which was written by AT&T/UI/Caldera/SCO.
That's the one that you currently have.

The details of the calling conventions are in ABI supplements for
each architecture.  Some are well defined, others less so.
What architecture are you working with?

For C++, see http://www.codesourcery.com/publications.html



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