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From: Mark Probst <schani@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, "Harvey J. Stein" <hjstein@bfr.co.il>
Subject: Re: forcing tail/sibling call optimization
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 16:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001128010717.T16207@vader.unix.cslab.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kiwu28tgnpc.fsf@blinky.bloomberg.com>

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 03:33:03PM -0500, Harvey J. Stein wrote:
> Except that this extension already exists - functions can already have
> the __stdcall__ attribute, and gcc can be called with the -mrtd
> switch.  I think that's all the calling convention support that's
> necessary.

this is only available for i386 and it doesn't handle more cases than
the standard sibcall optimization, i.e. no variable argument
functions, no calls to functions taking more arguments (more argument
space) than the caller, no indirect function calls, ...

bye
schani

-- 
Mark Probst
Student, Programmer, Juggler
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/

  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-27 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-27  8:44 Robert Dewar
2000-11-27  9:44 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-27 10:22   ` Mark Probst
2000-11-27 14:42     ` Harvey J. Stein
2000-11-27 16:07       ` Mark Probst [this message]
2000-11-27 14:30   ` Harvey J. Stein
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-29  4:58 Robert Dewar
2000-11-27 15:33 Mike Stump
2000-11-27 10:04 Robert Dewar
2000-11-27  9:39 Geert Bosch
2000-11-27 12:06 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-27  9:08 Robert Dewar
2000-11-27  9:14 ` Bernd Schmidt
2000-11-27 10:09   ` Michael Matz
2000-11-26 18:09 Robert Dewar
2000-11-26 15:46 Robert Dewar
2000-11-26 16:21 ` Joseph S. Myers
2000-11-26 18:08 ` Fergus Henderson
2000-11-26 21:50 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-26 15:27 Robert Dewar
2000-11-26 17:56 ` Fergus Henderson
2000-11-26 10:59 Timothy J. Wood
2000-11-26  9:12 Geert Bosch
2000-11-26  8:21 Robert Dewar
2000-11-26 13:51 ` Fergus Henderson
2000-11-26  8:14 Robert Dewar
2000-11-26 13:43 ` Fergus Henderson
2000-11-27  7:58 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-27  8:05   ` David Edelsohn
2000-11-27  8:07   ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-27  8:25     ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-27  8:39       ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-27  9:48         ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-11-27 11:21           ` Lars Brinkhoff
2000-11-27 10:54         ` Mark Mitchell
2000-11-27  8:38     ` Bernd Schmidt
2000-11-27 11:26       ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-27 10:48     ` Mark Mitchell
2000-11-27 12:46       ` Harvey J. Stein
2000-11-27 13:02         ` Travis Moulton
2000-11-27 10:47   ` Mark Mitchell
2000-11-28 19:21     ` Fergus Henderson
2000-11-29  2:09       ` Mark Mitchell
2000-11-30 23:59         ` Fergus Henderson
2000-12-01 15:51           ` Joe Buck
2001-01-03 12:24             ` Fergus Henderson
2001-01-03 13:09               ` Richard Henderson
2001-01-03 14:59                 ` Fergus Henderson
2001-01-03 15:32                   ` Richard Henderson
2001-01-03 15:53                     ` Fergus Henderson
2001-01-03 16:11                       ` Richard Henderson
2001-01-03 16:36                         ` Fergus Henderson
2002-09-14 23:35                   ` Fergus Henderson
2002-09-16  9:26                     ` Richard Henderson
2000-11-27 23:39   ` Fergus Henderson
2000-11-26  5:00 Robert Dewar
2000-11-26  7:44 ` Fergus Henderson
2000-11-26  8:18   ` Bernd Schmidt
2000-11-26  9:55   ` Andi Kleen
2000-11-26 11:34   ` Per Bothner
2000-11-26 11:55     ` Mark Probst
2000-11-26 17:40     ` Fergus Henderson
2000-11-26  3:56 Fergus Henderson
2000-11-26  5:22 ` Mark Probst

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