calling/runtime convention for ppc fbsd

peterg at ptree32.com.au peterg at ptree32.com.au
Wed Jun 1 16:56:12 PDT 2005


Hi Andreas,

>which caling / runtime convention does fbsd ppc follow? The sysv4 from 
>SUN dated around september 1995? Or is it another one?

 That's the one.

>Does/should it follow this convention without any exceptions?

 The one exception is that long doubles are 64-bit and not 128-bit.
OSX/NetBSD/Linux on powerpc all use 64-bit long doubles, so it
didn't seem to make a lot of sense to follow the ABI strictly there.

later,

Peter.


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