From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
To: meissner@spectacle-pond.org (Michael Meissner)
Cc: george@mvista.com (George Anzinger),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (linux-kernel@vger.redhat.com)
Subject: Re: Where is it written?
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:11:37 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200011110011.eAB0BbF244111@saturn.cs.uml.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001110184031.A2704@munchkin.spectacle-pond.org> from "Michael Meissner" at Nov 10, 2000 06:40:31 PM
Michael Meissner writes:
> It may be out of print by now, but the original reference
> for the x86 ABI, is the:
>
> System V Application Binary Interface
> Intel386 (tm) Processor Supplement
>
> When Cygnus purchased the manual I have, many moons ago,
> it was published by AT&T, with a copyright date of 1991,
Gee that looks old. Might there be better calling conventions
for the Pentium 4 or Athlon? Memory latency, vector registers,
and more direct access to floating-point registers may mean
we ought to change the calling conventions. One would start
with the kernel of course, because it stands alone.
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-10 16:37 George Anzinger
2000-11-10 23:40 ` Michael Meissner
2000-11-11 0:11 ` Albert D. Cahalan [this message]
2000-11-11 0:27 ` Michael Meissner
2000-11-11 1:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-11 1:28 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-11 1:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-14 1:33 ` Richard Henderson
2000-11-11 5:17 ` Michael Meissner
2000-11-11 14:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-11 15:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-11 23:17 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-11 23:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-12 4:54 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-12 5:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-12 5:36 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-12 5:55 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-12 9:35 ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-12 12:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-13 5:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-12 15:35 ` Olaf Titz
2000-11-11 1:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-10 23:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
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