[Dotgnu-libjit] Re: x86_64 alloca

[Peter Lobsinger]

Thanks for pointing out the errors in my initial attempt.

I have made changes to my patch, which now takes into account the
parameter area size.

Regards,

Peter

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:54 AM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> thanks for your patch.
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have implented a small change to libjit to implement alloca on x86_64.
>> It can be found at http://github.com/plobsing/libjit
>
> Implementing alloca it's not that easy if the whole call frame is allocated 
> in the prolog as it is done for x86_64.
> The memory at *%rsp will be overwritten as soon as functions are called that 
> require arguments passed on the stack.
>
> The returned location pointer has to be adjusted after allocating the memory 
> so that there is still enough space between the
> return value and the stack pointer that the largest block of arguments passed 
> on the stack for a function call fits inbetween.
>
>>
>> Basis:
>> It is a direct translation of the implementation on x86. I considered
>> doubling the smallest unit of allocation, but gcc -S outputs code that
>> rounds to 16 for x86_64, so I figured it would be fine.
>
> Yes, the stack has to be aligned on a 16byte boundary on x86_64 SysV ABI.
>
>>
>> Testing:
>> It seems to be working. I built an nci frame builder for the Parrot VM
>> (http://github.com/plobsing/parrot-libjit)  that depends on this, and
>> it behaves nicely.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Peter Lobsinger
>>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Klaus
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