Re: call stack's order of parameters

From: Bjarni Juliusson <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:25:59 +0200

(The Motorola 68000 had LINK and UNLK instructions that set up the
frame pointer upon call and did the reverse exchange upon return.
I do *not* know if the x86 architecture has this type of instruction.)

It does, ENTER and LEAVE. GCC generates only LEAVE, presumably because it's faster doing the ENTER by hand, like with many instructions in the x86 instruction set.

Bjarni
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