From:	beppu AT rigel DOT oac DOT uci DOT edu (John Beppu)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: [asm] what registers to preserve
Date:	11 Dec 1996 10:42:16 GMT
Organization:	University of California, Irvine
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In article <58jcu5$l6b AT leporello DOT cs DOT unibo DOT it>,
Nicola Gaggi <gaggi AT cs DOT unibo DOT it> wrote:

>John Beppu (beppu AT rigel DOT oac DOT uci DOT edu) wrote:
>
>:   When linking a function written in assembly, which
>:   registers should be preserved?  I think ebp should,
>:   but are there any others?
>
>
>Hello,
>
>The answer is simple, every register your function clobbers excluding AX


  Damn.  I didn't want to see that.  When I dump the assembler output
  of a function written in C, it doesn't look as if it preserves every
  register it uses.


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