[pypy-dev] GSoC projects

[Armin Rigo]

Re-hi,

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:52:58PM +0100, Armin Rigo wrote:
> The 64-bit version is more complicated, because the ABI
> on 64-bit is to use some number of registers in order to pass arguments;
> see details e.g. in http://www.x86-64.org/documentation/abi.pdf section
> "Function Calling Sequence".

I should point out that we only need to pass integers (of at most
64-bit), pointers, and 64-bit floats (that's "double", in C) as
arguments to functions.  Don't go discouraged because of the messy rules
for passing structs, arrays, or 128- or 256-bit stuff.  :-)


A bientot,

Armin.