Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>:As long as gcc uses %ebp to address local variables and functoin parameters
>:rather than %esp you should be fine. %esp will be preserved, but if %esp is
>:for some odd reason used to address a variable during the C code, you are hosed.
>
> I strongly recommend against making assumptions about GCC's use of %ebp vs
> %esp... not if you want the __asm code to survive the GCC optimizer!
But if gcc breaks that assumption, that implies it would break
alloca(), and presumably they wouldn't do that.
Tony.
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