[fpc-devel] ABI question PPC, ARM: position of SELF

Martin lazarus at mfriebe.de
Fri Dec 7 19:53:43 CET 2012


On 07/12/2012 17:03, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>> On Intel 64 bit it is RCX or RDI depending on it in Windows or not
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>> What on the others, fixed register, or simply as if it was the last param?
> It is *currently* (I don't think we specify anywhere how or in what order hidden parameters are passed) always passed as the first parameter. Whether this is a register or a memory location depends on the architecture, ABI and specified calling convention. On PPC resp. ARM this is always R3 resp. R0 with the currently existing ABIs.
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According to the current PascalScript (may be wrong):

looks like on ppc, Result (if static array or record) is also passed 
before params (on other platforms, it is passed last)

What is the order of Result, and self?



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