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From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
Subject: Re: ASM functions returning values
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Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 18:48:15 GMT
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NIGEL  HUGHES (ngh94 AT aber DOT ac DOT uk) wrote:
: Dear All,
: 	Quick question. I have some asm routines (in a separate
: .S file which I link in) and have parameters being passed OK no
: probs. The question I have is, where do I leave a value so it
: is returned by the function? Stack a register (%eax sounds likely) or what?

The easiest way to get the answer to this sort of question for any C
compiler is to write a trivial C program which returns a value of the
same type, get assembly language output from the compiler, and see how
the compiler did it.