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From: "Mark Kettenis" <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: "Andrew Haley" <aph@redhat.com>
Cc: "Ian Lance Taylor" <iant@google.com>,
	        "Mark Kettenis" <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>,
	        "Jan Kratochvil" <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org,         libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com,
	gdb@sourceware.org,         "Jakub Jelinek" <jakub@redhat.com>,
	        "Richard Henderson" <rth@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Unwinding CFI gcc practice of assumed `same value' regs
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14038.82.92.89.47.1165944860.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17790.57726.696229.240657@zebedee.pink>

>  Ian Lance Taylor writes:
>   > Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
>   >
>   > > In practice, %ebp either points to a call frame -- not necessarily
>  the
>   > > most recent one -- or is null.  I don't think that having an optional
>   > > frame pointer mees you can use %ebp for anything random at all, but
>  we
>   > > need to make a clarification request of the ABI.
>   >
>   > I don't see that as feasible.  If %ebp/%rbp may be used as a general
>   > callee-saved register, then it can hold any value.
>
>  Sure, we already know that, as has been clear.  The question is *if*
>  %rbp may be used as a general callee-saved register that can hold any
>  value.

The amd64 ABI is specifically *designed* to allow this.

Mark


  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-12 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-11 19:03 Jan Kratochvil
2006-12-11 22:40 ` Roland McGrath
2006-12-12 15:54   ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-12-12 13:55 ` Andrew Haley
2006-12-12 14:55   ` Mark Kettenis
2006-12-12 15:04     ` Andrew Haley
2006-12-12 15:21       ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-12 15:26         ` Andrew Haley
2006-12-12 15:39           ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-13 18:11             ` Michael Matz
2006-12-12 15:50           ` Jan Kratochvil
2006-12-12 16:19           ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-12-12 16:55       ` Ian Lance Taylor
2006-12-12 17:06         ` Andrew Haley
2006-12-12 17:34           ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2006-12-13 18:02           ` Michael Matz
2006-12-13 18:10 ` Michael Matz

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