MSVC hook function prologue

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 09/06/2009 11:15 AM, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> Am Saturday 05 September 2009 17:08:19 schrieb Ross Ridge:
>> If this patch is essentially only for one application, maybe the idea
>> of implementing a more generally useful naked attribute would be the
>> way to go.  I implemented a naked attribute in my private sources to
>> do something similar, although supporting hookable prologues was just
>> a small part of its more general use in supporting an assembler based API.
> We don't really like the naked attribute, because it makes maintaining a C
> function that uses it a pain. Alexandre once said that he would reject any
> solution for the hook problem that is based on the naked attribute. This
> especially becomes a pain when the function has to do stack realignment, like
> all our Win32 functions on OSX.

The naked attribute has been proposed and bashed to death multiple times 
on the GCC list too.

Paolo