Question about strange register calling truncates to SImode on x86_64

Michael Matz matz@suse.de
Thu Oct 12 14:10:00 GMT 2006


Hi,

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Kai Tietz wrote:

> thanks for description. I wasn't aware, that the upper 32 bits are 
> zeroed. Does this means that even the stack has to be in the first 4 Gb, 
> too.

Why should it?  I.e. no, it doesn't have to.

> Or does this mov instruction does a sign-extention.

Which mov instruction?


Ciao,
Michael.



More information about the Gcc mailing list