[M3devel] stdcall naming discrepancy?

Tony Hosking hosking at cs.purdue.edu
Mon Feb 4 21:30:23 CET 2008


OK.  Not sure I understand what is going on then -- I would like to  
see the .mc file to get a sense of things.

On Feb 4, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Jay wrote:

> I think they are being passed correctly, by value. pop_struct and  
> not pop_param is used.
> When I get time, I will put my parse.c back (uncommited) and then  
> just try some tests with "__cdecl" passing and returning structs.  
> That removes the naming issue and PART of the calling convention  
> issue and tests what is left.
> Then I'll see if I can hack something up to test the rest.
>
>  - Jay
>
>
>
> > CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> > From: hosking at cs.purdue.edu
> > Subject: Re: stdcall naming discrepancy?
> > Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:52:31 -0500
> > To: jayk123 at hotmail.com
> >
> > Any chance that standard_structs in Target.i3 is causing the front-
> > end to pass structs by reference (standard structs=TRUE)? Also,
> > looking at pop_struct in parse.c it seems to want to pass them by
> > reference (standard_structs=FALSE)? In any case, what does the
> > integrated back-end do with pop_struct? I bet it is passing by
> > value... whereas parse.c passes by ref. Blurgh! Looks like we need
> > to smarten things up for calls to non-M3 stdcall procedures.
> >
> > On Feb 4, 2008, at 1:23 AM, Jay wrote:
> >
> > > (and codegen..)
> > >
> > > C:\dev2\j\m3\t>type t.c
> > >
> > > typedef struct {
> > > int a,b,c,d,e,f;
> > > } Foo_t;
> > >
> > > void __stdcall Sleep(Foo_t foo);
> > >
> > > extern Foo_t a;
> > >
> > > void F1()
> > > {
> > > Sleep(a);
> > > }
> > >
> > > C:\dev2\j\m3\t>gcc -c -S t.c
> > >
> > > C:\dev2\j\m3\t>type t.s
> > > .file "t.c"
> > > .text
> > > .globl _F1
> > > .def _F1; .scl 2; .type 32; .endef
> > > _F1:
> > > pushl %ebp
> > > movl %esp, %ebp
> > > subl $24, %esp
> > > movl _a, %eax
> > > movl %eax, (%esp)
> > > movl _a+4, %eax
> > > movl %eax, 4(%esp)
> > > movl _a+8, %eax
> > > movl %eax, 8(%esp)
> > > movl _a+12, %eax
> > > movl %eax, 12(%esp)
> > > movl _a+16, %eax
> > > movl %eax, 16(%esp)
> > > movl _a+20, %eax
> > > movl %eax, 20(%esp)
> > > call _Sleep at 24
> > > subl $24, %esp
> > > leave
> > > ret
> > > C:\dev2\j\m3\t>
> > >
> > > (NOTE: This is NOT the correct declaration of Sleep, but ok for
> > > testing purposes.)
> > >
> > > C:\dev2\j\m3\t>type t.i3
> > > INTERFACE T;
> > >
> > > TYPE Foo_t = RECORD
> > > a,b,c,d,e,f : INTEGER;
> > > END;
> > >
> > > <*EXTERNAL Sleep:WINAPI*>
> > > PROCEDURE Sleep (dwMilliseconds1: Foo_t);
> > > END T.
> > >
> > > C:\dev2\j\m3\t>type t.m3
> > >
> > > MODULE T;
> > > VAR
> > > Foo: Foo_t;
> > >
> > > BEGIN
> > > Sleep(Foo);
> > > END T.
> > >
> > >
> > > LM1:
> > > movl 8(%ebp), %eax
> > > xorl $1, %eax
> > > testb %al, %al
> > > jne L2
> > > .stabn 68,0,6,LM2-_T_M3
> > > LM2:
> > > movl $_MM_T+52, %eax
> > > movl %eax, %edx
> > > subl $8, %esp
> > > subl $24, %esp
> > > movl %esp, %eax
> > > movl %eax, %edi
> > > movl %edx, %esi
> > > cld
> > > movl $6, %eax
> > > movl %eax, %ecx
> > > rep
> > > movsl
> > > call _Sleep at 4
> > > addl $8, %esp
> > > L2:
> > > movl $_MM_T, %eax
> > > LBE2:
> > > leal -8(%ebp), %esp
> > > popl %esi
> > > popl %edi
> > > leave
> > > ret
> > >
> > > ?
> > >
> > > - Jay
> > >
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