On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Andi Kleen <a...@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> Ulrich Drepper <drep...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> It's not guaranteed to work in general. The problem to solve is that
>> I know the function which is called is not clobbering any registers.
>> If I leave it with the normal function call gcc has to spill
>> registers. If I can hide the function call the generated code can be
>> significantly better.
>
> iirc the new shrink wrapping support that just went in was to address
> problems like that. Perhaps try a mainline compiler?
>
> But I agree that such an attribute would be useful. I would use it.
>
> At least the Linux kernel has a couple such cases ("nasty inline asm to
> hide register clobbering in calls") and it's always ugly and hard to
> maintain.
It would simply be an alternate ABI that makes all registers callee-saved?
I suppose that would be not too hard to add.
Richard.
> -Andi
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