register variable is clobbered by passing parameter to a function

Ian Lance Taylor ian@wasabisystems.com
Tue Mar 16 14:47:00 GMT 2004


"Wolfgang Kuehn" <wolfgang.kuehn@kristensen.de> writes:

> Last question: what means ABI ?

It means Application Binary Interface.  In this case it refers to the
calling convention, which is a binary interface between functions.
You can only safely call between functions which are all compiled with
the same ABI.

Ian



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