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Re: signals / legOS internals
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Wed, 23 Jun 1999 03:28:54 GMT
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Lou Sortman <theball@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Lou Sortman wrote:
> >
> > When you define a bunch of local variables (more than fit in available
> > registers), where are they? Unless you happen to know the answer, I may
> > have to do some more experimenting.
> >
> > Admittedly, it has been awhile, but the last time I was heavy into
> > assembler, it was under Unix, where in one direction (counting from SP),
> > you had any passed arguments and return addresses for previously called
> > (and not yet returned) functions. In the other direction, that was
> > where you put your local variables. So that you could call further
> > functions, the stub would adjust the SP at the beginning of the function
> > and restore it before returning.
>
> I may have answered my own question here. Since the SP is adjusted
> before anything is actually done with the local variables, the rule
> about it always pointing to the last valid datum is not violated even if
> local variables are placed after the return address.
Yes, that is correct. As for passing parameters to a function, they are
simply pushed onto the stack before the function call. Therefore, the H8
stack usually looks something like e.g. this:
function param sp+10
function param sp+8
return address sp+6
local variable sp+4
local variable sp+2
sp -> local variable sp+0
GCC complicates the picture somewhat. It maintains r6 as a frame pointer,
and references local variables and function parameters relative to that:
function param fp+6
function param fp+4
return address fp+2
fp -> prev frame ptr fp+0
local variable fp-2
local variable fp-4
sp -> local variable fp-6
That actually isn't quite all there is to say about how GCC behaves, but
the details are mostly unimportant.
-Kekoa
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