[fpc-pascal] intel asm and fpc-1.9.8

[Jan Je/lowicki]

> From:           Jonas Maebe <jonas at zeus.ugent.be>
> Subject:        Re: [fpc-pascal] intel asm and fpc-1.9.8
> Date sent:      Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:59:45 +0100
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> On 9 mrt 2005, at 17:13, Jan Je/lowicki wrote:
> 
> > Today I tried new fpc 1.9.8. Output generated from fpc 1.9.8 code
> > seems errorenous. The isolated example given below tries to fill an
> > array of float with contstant value. Gdb (5.3) gives no reasonable
> > support, although for 1.0.10 code it does.
> 
> The default calling convention changed to register parameters in 1.9.8. 
> Add {$calling fpccall} at the top of your source to revert to the 
> slower stack-based parameter passing.
> 

Thank you, that was the case. Suggested by your answer, I have found 
an interesting discusssion in fpc-devel archives. ($calling fpccall 
should be relalced by oldfpccall, I guess.) 

Keeping stack-based convention is slower, but this has minor 
meaning for me, as I save much more time by putting inner loops into 
registers (thousands operations per typical call) than I waste using 
stack frame (one time per call). However, the first operation to be 
done is to load addresses from stack to registers and I think that 
should be avoided using new convention. 

with regards

                                       Jan Jelowicki
                                       jasj at ozi.ar.wroc.pl
                         
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