[OpenBIOS] [commit] r915 - trunk/openbios-devel/arch/sparc32

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk
Tue Oct 19 11:57:00 CEST 2010


Artyom Tarasenko wrote:

> Why do you think it's up to 5, and not just always 5?

Mainly by looking at the Forth; it seems that all the code snippets I've 
seen expect the stack to be preserved. Otherwise if we always push all 5 
arguments, we'll end up with an excess of 0s being built-up on the stack 
by every call.


ATB,

Mark.

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