Tuesday, November 2, 2010

That last frame problem has been solved. I had written that the frame pointer had a role in determining whether R11 should be saved. That was a mistake, one has nothing to do with the other. This was seen when optimization was off because the frame pointer is aways used at this optimization level.

I don't know if this was causing problems yet, but frame_pointer_needed and df_ever_alive() were being factored into the R11 save calculation as well. These are always set for R11 since it's the return pointer, but it only really needs to be saved if the function is not a leaf.

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