[fpc-pascal] Candidate for crowd-funding

Martok listbox at martoks-place.de
Wed Dec 19 11:37:57 CET 2018


> The main problem here is to model what registers an instruction uses and
> modifies so that the register allocator of the surrounding function can take
> that into account accordingly... Maybe as a first step we could allow in lining
> for funcrions that have a register clause with the touched registers... 
> But yes, in the long term this would definitely be nice. 

I actually did that a few months ago (when intrinsics came up on this list), and
it does work as you expect. The actual difficult problem is argument location
remapping. Other than that, inline-nostackframe-asm[registers] needs almost no
changes.


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Regards,
Martok




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