From: "Dylan Trotter" <heavier AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Calling convention
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Okay thanks,

So basically I can clobber any or all of eax, ecx and edx.

"Alexei A. Frounze" <dummy_addressee AT hotmail DOT com> wrote in message
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> extra note.
> in your ASM functions you don't have to remove parameters from stack by
> using RET N instruction because the caller removes that stuff from the
stack
>
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> Alexei A. Frounze
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> "Dylan Trotter" <heavier AT hotmail DOT com> wrote in message
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> > I am writing some NASM functions to be linked with ld, but I'm not sure
> what
> > the calling convention is with regard to changed registers. Do I have to
> > save all registers inside a function or a subset of them, or does the
> caller
> > have to worry about that?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >     Dylan Trotter
> >     heavier AT hotmail DOT com
> >
> >
> >
>
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