dyncall: doc/manual/callconvs/callconv

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author	Tassilo Philipp
date	Sun, 20 Mar 2022 14:26:55 +0100
parents	e5820b7a3fbc
children	fc614cb865c6

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276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	3 % Copyright (c) 2007-2019 Daniel Adler <dadler@uni-goettingen.de>,
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276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	20 % ==================================================
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	21 % x86
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276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	23 \subsection{x86 Calling Conventions}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	24
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276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	26 \paragraph{Overview}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	27
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	28 On this processor, a word is defined to be 16 bits in size, a dword 32 bits
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	29 and a qword 64 bits.\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	30
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	31 There are numerous different calling conventions on the x86 processor
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	32 architecture, like cdecl \cite{x86cdecl}, MS fastcall \cite{x86Winfastcall}, GNU
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	33 fastcall \cite{x86GNUfastcall}, Borland fastcall \cite{x86Borlandfastcall}, Watcom
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	34 fastcall \cite{x86Watcomfastcall}, Win32 stdcall \cite{x86Winstdcall}, MS thiscall
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	35 \cite{x86Winthiscall}, GNU thiscall \cite{x86GNUthiscall}, the pascal calling
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	36 convention \cite{x86Pascal} and a cdecl-like version for Plan9 \cite{x86Plan9}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	37 (dubbed plan9call by us), etc.\\
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276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	39 \begin{table}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	40 \begin{tabular*}{0.95\textwidth}{rccccc}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	41 & \# of regs & \# regs to & & cleanup & 64bit args \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	42 Name & for params & \# preserve & push order & by & via regs? \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	43 \hline
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	44 cdecl & 0 & 4 & $\leftarrow$ & caller & - \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	45 MS fastcall & 2 & 4 & $\leftarrow$ & callee & Y \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	46 GNU fastcall & 2 & 4 & $\leftarrow$ & callee & N \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	47 Borland fastcall & 3 & 4 & $\rightarrow$ & callee & N \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	48 Watcom fastcall & 4 & 2-6 & $\leftarrow$ & callee & N \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	49 win32 stdcall & 0 & 4 & $\leftarrow$ & callee & - \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	50 MS thiscall & 1 & 4 & $\leftarrow$ & callee & N \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	51 GNU thiscall & 0 & 4 & $\leftarrow$ & caller & - \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	52 pascal & 0 & 4 & $\rightarrow$ & callee & - \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	53 plan9call & 0 & 0 & $\leftarrow$ & caller & - \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	54 \end{tabular*}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	55 \caption{short x86 calling convention comparison}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	56 \end{table}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	57
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	58
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	59 \paragraph{\product{dyncall} support}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	60
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	61 Currently cdecl, stdcall, fastcall (MS and GNU), thiscall (MS and GNU) and
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	62 plan9call are supported.\\
340 6e33db95e724 - syscall infos in doc Tassilo Philipp parents: 328 diff changeset	63 \product{Dyncall} can also be used to issue syscalls on Linux and *BSD by using
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490 17287342e273 manual: Tassilo Philipp parents: 472 diff changeset	68 \pagebreak
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	69
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	70 \subsubsection{cdecl}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	71
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	72 \paragraph{Registers and register usage}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	73
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	74 \begin{table}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	75 \begin{tabular*}{0.95\textwidth}{3 B}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	76 Name & Brief description\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	77 \hline
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	78 {\bf eax} & scratch, return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	79 {\bf ebx} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	80 {\bf ecx} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	81 {\bf edx} & scratch, return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	82 {\bf esi} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	83 {\bf edi} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	84 {\bf ebp} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	85 {\bf esp} & stack pointer\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	86 {\bf st0} & scratch, floating point return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	87 {\bf st1-st7} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	88 \end{tabular*}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	89 \caption{Register usage on x86 cdecl calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	90 \end{table}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	91
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	92
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	93 \paragraph{Parameter passing}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	94
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	95 \begin{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	96 \item stack parameter order: right-to-left
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	97 \item caller cleans up the stack
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	98 \item all arguments are pushed onto the stack (as dwords)
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	99 \item arguments \textgreater\ 64 bits are pushed as a sequence of dwords
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	100 \item aggregates (structs, unions) are pushed as a sequence of dwords
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	101 \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	102
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	103 \paragraph{Return values}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	104
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	105 \begin{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	106 \item return values of pointer or integral type (\textless=\ 32 bits) are returned via the eax register
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	107 \item integers and aggregates (structs, unions) \textgreater\ 32 and \textless=\ 64 bits are returned via the eax and edx registers
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	108 \item return values \textgreater\ 64 bits (e.g. aggregates) are returned by the caller allocating the space and
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	109 passing a pointer to the callee as a new, implicit first parameter (this means, on the stack)
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	110 \item floating point types are returned via the st0 register (except on Minix, where they are returned as integers are)
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	111 \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	112
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276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	114 \paragraph{Stack layout}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	115
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	116 % verified/amended: TP nov 2019 (see also doc/disas_examples/x86.cdecl.disas)
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	117 Stack directly after function prolog:\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	118
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	119 \begin{figure}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	120 \begin{tabular}{5\|3\|1 1}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	121 & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	122 \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	123 register save area & \hspace{4cm} & & \mrrbrace{6}{caller's frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	124 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	125 local data & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	126 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	127 \mrlbrace{3}{parameter area} & arg n-1 & \mrrbrace{3}{stack parameters} & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	128 & \ldots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	129 & arg 0 & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	130 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	131 & return address & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	132 \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	133 register save area & & & \mrrbrace{4}{current frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	134 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	135 local data & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	136 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	137 parameter area & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	138 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	139 & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	140 \end{tabular}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	141 \caption{Stack layout on x86 cdecl calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	142 \end{figure}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	143
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490 17287342e273 manual: Tassilo Philipp parents: 472 diff changeset	145 \pagebreak
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	146
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	147 \subsubsection{MS fastcall}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	148
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	149 \paragraph{Registers and register usage}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	150
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	151 \begin{table}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	152 \begin{tabular*}{0.95\textwidth}{3 B}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	153 Name & Brief description\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	154 \hline
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	155 {\bf eax} & scratch, return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	156 {\bf ebx} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	157 {\bf ecx} & scratch, parameter 0\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	158 {\bf edx} & scratch, parameter 1, return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	159 {\bf esi} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	160 {\bf edi} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	161 {\bf ebp} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	162 {\bf esp} & stack pointer\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	163 {\bf st0} & scratch, floating point return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	164 {\bf st1-st7} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	165 \end{tabular*}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	166 \caption{Register usage on x86 fastcall (MS) calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	167 \end{table}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	168
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	169 \paragraph{Parameter passing}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	170
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	171 \begin{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	172 \item stack parameter order: right-to-left
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	173 \item called function cleans up the stack
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	174 \item first two integers/pointers (\textless=\ 32bit) are passed via ecx and edx (even if preceded by other arguments)
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	175 \item if first argument is a 64 bit integer, it is passed via ecx and edx
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	176 \item all other parameters are pushed onto the stack (as dwords)
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	177 \item arguments \textgreater\ 64 bits are pushed as a sequence of dwords
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	178 \item aggregates (structs, unions) are pushed as a sequence of dwords, but are never split between registers and stack (if registers are still available and
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	179 aggregate doesn't fit entirely into ecx and edx, it is passed via the stack and remaining registers are free for subsequent arguments)
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	180 \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	181
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328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	184 \paragraph{Return values}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	185
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	186 \begin{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	187 \item return values of pointer or integral type (\textless=\ 32 bits) are returned via the eax register
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	188 \item integers and aggregates (structs, unions) \textgreater\ 32 and \textless=\ 64 bits are returned via the eax and edx registers
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	189 \item return values \textgreater\ 64 bits (e.g. aggregates) are returned by the caller allocating the space and
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	190 passing a pointer to the callee as a new, implicit first parameter (always via the stack, never via a register)
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	191 \item floating point types are returned via the st0 register
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	192 \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	193
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	194
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	195 \paragraph{Stack layout}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	196
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	197 Stack directly after function prolog:\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	198
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	199 \begin{figure}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	200 \begin{tabular}{5\|3\|1 1}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	201 & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	202 \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	203 register save area & \hspace{4cm} & & \mrrbrace{6}{caller's frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	204 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	205 local data & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	206 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	207 \mrlbrace{3}{parameter area} & last arg & \mrrbrace{3}{stack parameters} & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	208 & \ldots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	209 & first arg passed via stack & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	210 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	211 & return address & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	212 \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	213 register save area & & & \mrrbrace{4}{current frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	214 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	215 local data & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	216 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	217 parameter area & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	218 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	219 & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	220 \end{tabular}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	221 \caption{Stack layout on x86 fastcall (MS) calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	222 \end{figure}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	223
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	224
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	225 \pagebreak
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	226
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	227 \subsubsection{GNU fastcall}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	228
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	229 \paragraph{Registers and register usage}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	230
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	231 \begin{table}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	232 \begin{tabular*}{0.95\textwidth}{3 B}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	233 Name & Brief description\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	234 \hline
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	235 {\bf eax} & scratch, return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	236 {\bf ebx} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	237 {\bf ecx} & scratch, parameter 0\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	238 {\bf edx} & scratch, parameter 1, return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	239 {\bf esi} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	240 {\bf edi} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	241 {\bf ebp} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	242 {\bf esp} & stack pointer\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	243 {\bf st0} & scratch, floating point return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	244 {\bf st1-st7} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	245 \end{tabular*}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	246 \caption{Register usage on x86 fastcall (GNU) calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	247 \end{table}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	248
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17287342e273 manual: Tassilo Philipp parents: 472 diff changeset	250 \clearpage
17287342e273 manual: Tassilo Philipp parents: 472 diff changeset	251
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	252 \paragraph{Parameter passing}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	253
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	254 \begin{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	255 \item stack parameter order: right-to-left
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	256 \item called function cleans up the stack
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	257 \item first two integers/pointers (\textless=\ 32bit) are passed via ecx and edx (even if preceded by other arguments)
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	258 \item arguments \textgreater\ 32 bits are pushed onto the stack as a sequence of dwords (never passed via registers, any respective register is skipped and not used for subsequent args)
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	259 \item all other parameters are pushed onto the stack (as dwords)
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	260 \item aggregates (structs, unions) are pushed as a sequence of dwords, and never passed via registers (no matter their size, any respective register is skipped and not used for subsequent args)
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	261 \item varargs are always passed via the stack
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	262 \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	263
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	264
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	265 \paragraph{Return values}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	266
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	267 \begin{itemize}
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	268 \item return values of pointer or integral type (\textless=\ 32 bits) are returned via the eax register
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	269 \item integers \textgreater\ 32 and \textless=\ 64 bits are returned via the eax and edx registers
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	270 \item aggregates (structs, unions) of any size are returned by the caller allocating the space and
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	271 passing a pointer to the callee as a new, implicit first parameter (always via ecx), that same pointer is returned in eax
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	272 \item floating point types are returned via the st0
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	273 \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	274
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	275
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	276 \paragraph{Stack layout}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	277
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	278 Stack directly after function prolog:\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	279
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	280 \begin{figure}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	281 \begin{tabular}{5\|3\|1 1}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	282 & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	283 \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	284 register save area & \hspace{4cm} & & \mrrbrace{6}{caller's frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	285 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	286 local data & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	287 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	288 \mrlbrace{3}{parameter area} & last arg & \mrrbrace{3}{stack parameters} & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	289 & \ldots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	290 & first arg passed via stack & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	291 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	292 & return address & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	293 \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	294 register save area & & & \mrrbrace{4}{current frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	295 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	296 local data & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	297 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	298 parameter area & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	299 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	300 & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	301 \end{tabular}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	302 \caption{Stack layout on x86 fastcall (GNU) calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	303 \end{figure}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	304
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	305
490 17287342e273 manual: Tassilo Philipp parents: 472 diff changeset	306 \pagebreak
17287342e273 manual: Tassilo Philipp parents: 472 diff changeset	307
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	308 \subsubsection{Borland fastcall}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	309
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	310 Also called {\bf register convention} by Borland.
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	311
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	312
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	313 \paragraph{Registers and register usage}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	314
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	315 \begin{table}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	316 \begin{tabular*}{0.95\textwidth}{3 B}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	317 Name & Brief description\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	318 \hline
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	319 {\bf eax} & scratch, parameter 0, return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	320 {\bf ebx} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	321 {\bf ecx} & scratch, parameter 2\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	322 {\bf edx} & scratch, parameter 1, return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	323 {\bf esi} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	324 {\bf edi} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	325 {\bf ebp} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	326 {\bf esp} & stack pointer\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	327 {\bf st0} & scratch, floating point return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	328 {\bf st1-st7} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	329 \end{tabular*}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	330 \caption{Register usage on x86 fastcall (Borland) calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	331 \end{table}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	332
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	333 \paragraph{Parameter passing}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	334
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	335 \begin{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	336 \item stack parameter order: left-to-right
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	337 \item called function cleans up the stack
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	338 \item first three integers/pointers (with exception of method pointers) (\textless=\ 32bit) are passed via eax, ecx and edx (preceding or interleaved arguments that are not passed via registers are pushed onto the stack)
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	339 \item arguments \textgreater\ 32 bits are passed as a pointer to the value
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	340 \item aggregates (structs, unions) are pushed as a sequence of dwords, and never passed via registers (no matter their size)
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	341 \item varargs are always passed via the stack
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	342 \item all other parameters are pushed onto the stack
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	343 \item the direction flag is clear on entry and must be returned clear % mention it first, above @@@
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	344 \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	345
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	346
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	347 \paragraph{Return values}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	348
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	349 \begin{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	350 \item return values of pointer or integral type (\textless=\ 32 bits) are returned via the eax register
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	351 \item integers and aggregates (structs, unions) \textgreater\ 32 and \textless=\ 64 bits are returned via the eax and edx registers
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	352 \item floating point types are returned via the st0 register
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	353 \item return values \textgreater\ 32 bits (e.g. aggregates, long long, ...) are returned by the caller allocating the space and
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	354 passing a pointer to the callee as a new, implicit {\bf last} parameter
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	355 \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	356
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	357
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276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	359 \paragraph{Stack layout}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	360
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	361 Stack directly after function prolog:\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	362
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	363 \begin{figure}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	364 \begin{tabular}{5\|3\|1 1}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	365 & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	366 \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	367 register save area & \hspace{4cm} & & \mrrbrace{6}{caller's frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	368 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	369 local data & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	370 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	371 \mrlbrace{3}{parameter area} & first arg passed via stack & \mrrbrace{3}{stack parameters} & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	372 & \ldots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	373 & last arg & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	374 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	375 & return address & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	376 \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	377 register save area & & & \mrrbrace{4}{current frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	378 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	379 local data & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	380 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	381 parameter area & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	382 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	383 & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	384 \end{tabular}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	385 \caption{Stack layout on x86 fastcall (Borland) calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	386 \end{figure}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	387
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	388
490 17287342e273 manual: Tassilo Philipp parents: 472 diff changeset	389 \pagebreak
17287342e273 manual: Tassilo Philipp parents: 472 diff changeset	390
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	391 \subsubsection{Watcom fastcall}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	392
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	393
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	394 \paragraph{Registers and register usage}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	395
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	396 \begin{table}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	397 \begin{tabular*}{0.95\textwidth}{3 B}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	398 Name & Brief description\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	399 \hline
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	400 {\bf eax} & scratch, parameter 0, return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	401 {\bf ebx} & scratch when used for parameter, otherwise preserve, parameter 2\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	402 {\bf ecx} & scratch when used for parameter, otherwise preserve, parameter 3\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	403 {\bf edx} & scratch when used for parameter, otherwise preserve, parameter 1, return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	404 {\bf esi} & scratch when used for return pointer, otherwise preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	405 {\bf edi} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	406 {\bf ebp} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	407 {\bf esp} & stack pointer\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	408 {\bf st0} & scratch, floating point return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	409 {\bf st1-st7} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	410 \end{tabular*}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	411 \caption{Register usage on x86 fastcall (Watcom) calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	412 \end{table}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	413
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	414 \paragraph{Parameter passing}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	415
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	416 \begin{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	417 \item stack parameter order: right-to-left
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	418 \item called function cleans up the stack
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	419 \item first four integers/pointers (\textless=\ 32bit) are passed via eax, edx, ebx and ecx (even if preceded by other arguments)
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	420 \item arguments \textgreater\ 32 bits, as well as all subsequent arguments, are passed via the stack
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	421 \item aggregates (structs, unions) are passed as a pointer to the aggregate
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	422 \item all other parameters are pushed onto the stack
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	423 \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	424
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	425
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	426 \paragraph{Return values}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	427
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	428 \begin{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	429 \item return values of pointer or integral type (\textless=\ 32 bits) are returned via the eax register
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	430 \item integers \textgreater\ 32 bits and \textless=\ 64 bits are returned via the eax and edx registers
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	431 \item aggregates (structs, unions) \textless=\ 32 bits are returned in eax
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	432 \item aggregates (structs, unions) \textgreater\ 32 bits are returned by the caller allocating the space and
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	433 passing a pointer to the callee via esi, that same pointer is returned in eax
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	434 \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	435
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	436
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	437 \paragraph{Stack layout}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	438
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	439 Stack directly after function prolog:\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	440
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	441 \begin{figure}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	442 \begin{tabular}{5\|3\|1 1}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	443 & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	444 \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	445 register save area & \hspace{4cm} & & \mrrbrace{6}{caller's frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	446 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	447 local data & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	448 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	449 \mrlbrace{3}{parameter area} & last arg & \mrrbrace{3}{stack parameters} & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	450 & \ldots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	451 & first arg passed via stack & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	452 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	453 & return address & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	454 \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	455 register save area & & & \mrrbrace{4}{current frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	456 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	457 local data & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	458 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	459 parameter area & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	460 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	461 & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	462 \end{tabular}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	463 \caption{Stack layout on x86 fastcall (Watcom) calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	464 \end{figure}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	465
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	466
490 17287342e273 manual: Tassilo Philipp parents: 472 diff changeset	467 \pagebreak
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	468
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	469 \subsubsection{win32 stdcall}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	470
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	471 \paragraph{Registers and register usage}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	472
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	473 \begin{table}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	474 \begin{tabular*}{0.95\textwidth}{3 B}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	475 Name & Brief description\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	476 \hline
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	477 {\bf eax} & scratch, return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	478 {\bf ebx} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	479 {\bf ecx} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	480 {\bf edx} & scratch, return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	481 {\bf esi} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	482 {\bf edi} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	483 {\bf ebp} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	484 {\bf esp} & stack pointer\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	485 {\bf st0} & scratch, floating point return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	486 {\bf st1-st7} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	487 \end{tabular*}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	488 \caption{Register usage on x86 stdcall calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	489 \end{table}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	490
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	491 \paragraph{Parameter passing}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	492
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	493 \begin{itemize}
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	494 \item stack parameter order: right-to-left
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	495 \item called function cleans up the stack
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	496 \item all parameters are pushed onto the stack (as dwords)
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	497 \item arguments \textgreater\ 64 bits are pushed as a sequence of dwords
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	498 \item aggregates (structs, unions) are pushed as a sequence of dwords
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	499 \item stack is usually 4 byte aligned (GCC \textgreater=\ 3.x seems to use a 16byte alignement)
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	500 \item the direction flag is clear on entry and must be returned clear % mention it first, above @@@
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	501 \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	502
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	503 % introduce mangling section? \item Function name is decorated by prepending an underscore character and appending a '@' character and the number of bytes of stack space required
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	504
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	505 \paragraph{Return values}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	506
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	507 \begin{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	508 \item return values of pointer or integral type (\textless=\ 32 bits) are returned via the eax register
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	509 \item integers and aggregates (structs, unions) \textgreater\ 32 and \textless=\ 64 bits are returned via the eax and edx registers
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	510 \item return values \textgreater\ 64 bits (e.g. aggregates) are returned by the caller allocating the space and
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	511 passing a pointer to the callee as a new, implicit first parameter (this means, on the stack)
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	512 \item floating point types are returned via the st0 register
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	513 \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	514
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	515
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	516 \paragraph{Stack layout}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	517
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	518 Stack directly after function prolog:\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	519
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	520 \begin{figure}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	521 \begin{tabular}{5\|3\|1 1}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	522 & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	523 \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	524 register save area & \hspace{4cm} & & \mrrbrace{6}{caller's frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	525 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	526 local data & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	527 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	528 \mrlbrace{3}{parameter area} & arg n-1 & \mrrbrace{3}{stack parameters} & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	529 & \ldots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	530 & arg 0 & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	531 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	532 & return address & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	533 \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	534 register save area & & & \mrrbrace{4}{current frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	535 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	536 local data & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	537 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	538 parameter area & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	539 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	540 & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	541 \end{tabular}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	542 \caption{Stack layout on x86 stdcall calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	543 \end{figure}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	544
490 17287342e273 manual: Tassilo Philipp parents: 472 diff changeset	545
17287342e273 manual: Tassilo Philipp parents: 472 diff changeset	546 \pagebreak
17287342e273 manual: Tassilo Philipp parents: 472 diff changeset	547
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	548 \subsubsection{MS thiscall}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	549
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	550 \paragraph{Registers and register usage}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	551
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	552 \begin{table}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	553 \begin{tabular*}{0.95\textwidth}{3 B}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	554 Name & Brief description\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	555 \hline
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	556 {\bf eax} & scratch, return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	557 {\bf ebx} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	558 {\bf ecx} & scratch, parameter 0\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	559 {\bf edx} & scratch, return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	560 {\bf esi} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	561 {\bf edi} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	562 {\bf ebp} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	563 {\bf esp} & stack pointer\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	564 {\bf st0} & scratch, floating point return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	565 {\bf st1-st7} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	566 \end{tabular*}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	567 \caption{Register usage on x86 thiscall (MS) calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	568 \end{table}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	569
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	570
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	571 \paragraph{Parameter passing}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	572
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	573 \begin{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	574 \item stack parameter order: right-to-left
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	575 \item called function cleans up the stack (except for variadic functions where the caller cleans up)
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	576 \item first parameter (this pointer) is passed via ecx
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	577 \item all other parameters are pushed onto the stack
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	578 \item arguments \textgreater\ 64 bits are pushed as a sequence of dwords
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	579 \item aggregates (structs, unions) are pushed as a sequence of dwords
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	580 \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	581
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	582 % introduce mangling section? \item Function name is decorated by prepending a '@' character and appending a '@' character and the number of bytes (decimal) of stack space required
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	583
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	584 \paragraph{Return values}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	585
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	586 \begin{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	587 \item return values of pointer or integral type (\textless=\ 32 bits) are returned via the eax register
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	588 \item integers \textgreater\ 32 bits and \textless=\ 64 bits are returned via the eax and edx
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	589 \item aggregates (structs, unions) of any size are returned by the caller allocating the space and passing
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	590 a pointer to the callee as a new, implicit first parameter, that same pointer is returned in eax
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	591 \item floating point types are returned via the st0 register
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	592 \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	593
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	594
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	595 \paragraph{Stack layout}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	596
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	597 Stack directly after function prolog:\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	598
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	599 \begin{figure}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	600 \begin{tabular}{5\|3\|1 1}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	601 & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	602 \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	603 register save area & \hspace{4cm} & & \mrrbrace{6}{caller's frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	604 \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	605 local data & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	606 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	607 \mrlbrace{3}{parameter area} & arg n-1 & \mrrbrace{3}{stack parameters} & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	608 & \ldots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	609 & arg 1 & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	610 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	611 & return address & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	612 \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	613 register save area & & & \mrrbrace{4}{current frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	614 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	615 local data & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	616 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	617 parameter area & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	618 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	619 & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	620 \end{tabular}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	621 \caption{Stack layout on x86 thiscall (MS) calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	622 \end{figure}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	623
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	624
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	625
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	626 \subsubsection{GNU thiscall}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	627
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	628 This is equivalent to the cdecl calling convention, with the first parameter being the this pointer.
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	629
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	630 % \paragraph{Registers and register usage}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	631 %
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	632 % \begin{table}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	633 % \begin{tabular*}{0.95\textwidth}{3 B}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	634 % Name & Brief description\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	635 % \hline
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	636 % {\bf eax} & scratch, return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	637 % {\bf ebx} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	638 % {\bf ecx} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	639 % {\bf edx} & scratch, return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	640 % {\bf esi} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	641 % {\bf edi} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	642 % {\bf ebp} & preserve\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	643 % {\bf esp} & stack pointer\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	644 % {\bf st0} & scratch, floating point return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	645 % {\bf st1-st7} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	646 % \end{tabular*}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	647 % \caption{Register usage on x86 thiscall (GNU) calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	648 % \end{table}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	649 %
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	650 % \paragraph{Parameter passing}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	651 %
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	652 % \begin{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	653 % \item stack parameter order: right-to-left
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	654 % \item caller cleans up the stack
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	655 % \item all parameters are pushed onto the stack
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	656 % \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	657 %
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	658 %
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	659 % \paragraph{Return values}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	660 %
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	661 % \begin{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	662 % \item return values of pointer or integral type (\textless=\ 32 bits) are returned via the eax register
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	663 % \item integers \textgreater\ 32 bits are returned via the eax and edx registers
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	664 % \item floating point types are returned via the st0 register
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	665 % \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	666 %
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	667 %
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	668 % \paragraph{Stack layout}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	669 %
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	670 % Stack directly after function prolog:\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	671 %
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	672 % \begin{figure}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	673 % \begin{tabular}{5\|3\|1 1}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	674 % & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	675 % \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	676 % register save area & \hspace{4cm} & & \mrrbrace{6}{caller's frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	677 % \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	678 % local data & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	679 % \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	680 % \mrlbrace{3}{parameter area} & arg n-1 & \mrrbrace{3}{stack parameters} & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	681 % & \ldots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	682 % & arg 0 & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	683 % \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	684 % & return address & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	685 % \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	686 % register save area & & & \mrrbrace{4}{current frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	687 % \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	688 % local data & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	689 % \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	690 % parameter area & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	691 % \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	692 % & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	693 % \end{tabular}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	694 % \caption{Stack layout on x86 thiscall (GNU) calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	695 % \end{figure}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	696
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	697
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	698
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	699 \subsubsection{pascal}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	700
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	701 The best known uses of the pascal calling convention are the 16 bit OS/2 APIs, Microsoft Windows 3.x and Borland Delphi 1.x.
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	702 It is a variation of stdcall, however, arguments are passed from left-to-right.
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	703 Since this calling convention is for 16-bit APIs, it is not discussed in
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	704 further detail, here.
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	705
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	706
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	707
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	708 \subsubsection{plan9call}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	709
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	710 \paragraph{Registers and register usage}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	711
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	712 \begin{table}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	713 \begin{tabular*}{0.95\textwidth}{3 B}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	714 Name & Brief description\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	715 \hline
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	716 {\bf eax} & scratch, return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	717 {\bf ebx} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	718 {\bf ecx} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	719 {\bf edx} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	720 {\bf esi} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	721 {\bf edi} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	722 {\bf ebp} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	723 {\bf esp} & stack pointer\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	724 {\bf st0} & scratch, floating point return value\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	725 {\bf st1-st7} & scratch\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	726 \end{tabular*}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	727 \caption{Register usage on x86 plan9call calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	728 \end{table}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	729
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	730 \paragraph{Parameter passing}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	731
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	732 \begin{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	733 \item stack parameter order: right-to-left
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	734 \item caller cleans up the stack
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	735 \item all parameters are pushed onto the stack
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	736 \item all parameters are pushed onto the stack (as dwords)
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	737 \item arguments \textgreater\ 64 bits are pushed as a sequence of dwords
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	738 \item aggregates (structs, unions) are pushed as a sequence of dwords
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	739 \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	740
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	741
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	742 \paragraph{Return values}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	743
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	744 \begin{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	745 \item return values of pointer or integral type (\textless=\ 32 bits) are returned via the eax register
472 e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	746 \item integers \textgreater\ 32 bits and aggregates (structs, unions) of any size are returned by the caller allocating
e5820b7a3fbc doc: Tassilo Philipp parents: 467 diff changeset	747 the space and passing a pointer to the callee as a new, implicit first parameter, that same pointer is returned in eax
328 276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	748 \item floating point types are returned via the st0 register (called F0 in plan9 8a's terms)
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	749 \end{itemize}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	750
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	751
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	752 \paragraph{Stack layout}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	753
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	754 % verified/amended: TP nov 2019 (see also doc/disas_examples/x86.plan9call.disas)
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	755 Note there is no register save area at all. Stack directly after function prolog:\\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	756
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	757 \begin{figure}[h]
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	758 \begin{tabular}{5\|3\|1 1}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	759 & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	760 \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	761 local data & \hspace{4cm} & & \mrrbrace{5}{caller's frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	762 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	763 \mrlbrace{3}{parameter area} & arg n-1 & \mrrbrace{3}{stack parameters} & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	764 & \ldots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	765 & arg 0 & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	766 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	767 & return address & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	768 \hhline{~=~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	769 local data & & & \mrrbrace{3}{current frame} \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	770 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	771 parameter area & & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	772 \hhline{~-~~}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	773 & \vdots & & \\
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	774 \end{tabular}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	775 \caption{Stack layout on x86 plan9call calling convention}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	776 \end{figure}
276eb8c87aa0 - review and fixes, cleanup, amendments to calling convention appendix of manual Tassilo Philipp parents: 145 diff changeset	777
340 6e33db95e724 - syscall infos in doc Tassilo Philipp parents: 328 diff changeset	778
345 c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	779 \subsubsection{Linux syscalls}
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	780
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	781 \paragraph{Parameter passing}
340 6e33db95e724 - syscall infos in doc Tassilo Philipp parents: 328 diff changeset	782
345 c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	783 \begin{itemize}
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	784 \item syscall is issued by triggering {\em interrupt 80h}
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	785 \item syscall number is set in eax
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	786 \item params are passed in the following registers in this order: ebx, ecx, edx, esi, edi, ebp
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	787 \item for more than six arguments, ebx points to the list of further arguments (not used in practice, as Linux syscalls use a maximum of 5 arguments)
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	788 \item register eax holds the return value
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	789 \end{itemize}
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	790
490 17287342e273 manual: Tassilo Philipp parents: 472 diff changeset	791
345 c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	792 \subsubsection{*BSD syscalls}
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	793
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	794 \paragraph{Parameter passing}
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	795
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	796 \begin{itemize}
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	797 \item syscall is issued by triggering {\em interrupt 80h}
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	798 \item syscall number is set in eax
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	799 \item params are passed on the stack as with the cdecl calling convention
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	800 \end{itemize}
c607d67cd6b8 - doc: added syscall info to appendix, fixed broken literature link Tassilo Philipp parents: 340 diff changeset	801

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