A fundamental introduction to x86 assembly programming

Re:A fundamental introduction to x86 assembly programming by aktau on Sunday May 15, 2016 @10:41AM (#11701067)

I take it you're a fan of the plan9 calling convention (f. ex.: all arguments and return value(s) are on the stack)?

Curiously, it doesn't actually appear all that ineffecient. Go uses it AFAIK. I wonder whether anyone has studied it. I also wonder whether gccgo uses that convention or defaults to SysV x64.

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Re:A fundamental introduction to x86 assembly programming by acdimalev on Monday May 16, 2016 @05:25PM (#11709760)

I didn't know it was a System V thing. Thank you for cluing me in!

I don't think of it in terms of like-vs-dislike. My observation is that it's a difficult thing to get right without a compiler, and thus avoided for introductory material.

As far as I am aware, storing values in a register requires fewer instructions. However, I have never personally confirmed the performance difference of this calling convention.

Handling of all calling conventions is one of the many things that I am personally much happier leaving up to GCC and LLVM in practice.

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