Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
>
> What operating system will you be targetting?
Linux
>
> I think that telling FPC which ASM instructions to use should be quite
> easy, the main problem should be getting a grip in the binutils, how
> to link libraries and all other stuff that comes with it.
Yep: the ABI of the architecture. This is defined with the C compiler.
We of course would need take care of this.
>
> Luckly linux-mipsel has standard GNU binutils, but I don't know about NIOS2
>
Of course NIOS/Linux uses the standard GNU binutils, as well.
But even with the standard GNU binutils, the ABI perhaps is different
between MIPS32 and NIOS. I could search for the complete appropriate
paper if you are interested. Here some stuff I just remember:
R00 always is 0
R01 used by Assembler for optimization (don't use)
R02 Function Return Value (least significant 32 Bits) (Not used by
Compiler)
R03 Function Return Value (most significant 32 Bits)
R04 Function Argument (First 32 Bits)
R05 Function Argument (Second 32 Bits)
R06 Function Argument (Third 32 Bits)
R07 Function Argument (Fourth 32 Bits)
R08..R15 Caller Saved General Purpose
R16..R22 Callee-Saved General Purpose
R23 Pointer to Thread Local Storage ("ThreadVar")
R24 Exception Temporary (Not used by Compiler)
R25 Break Temporary (Not used by Compiler)
R26 Global Pointer
R27 Stack Pointer
R28 Frame Pointer
R29 Exception Return Address (Not used by Compiler)
R30 Break Return Address (Not used by Compiler)
R31 Function Return Address
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