osdev - Just wasted 2 hours of my life because turns out the C calling convention is really not standardized and depends on the - devRant

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RememberMe

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5y

Yeah it's super annoying and you have to resort to all sorts of hackery to get around it. But then that's just low level dev in a nutshell.
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Fast-Nop

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5y

Of course it depends on the target platform because otherwise, e.g. register starved architectures would have crippled the speed on register rich architectures.
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adante

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5y

only 2 hours? in my opinion I'd count that as a win!
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12bitfloat

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5y

@Fast-Nop True, but even on x86_64 it isn't standardized between win64 and sysv for example
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Fast-Nop

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5y

@12bitfloat Then again, Windows isn't sticking to any sort of standard such as POSIX. That Microsoft ghetto is the result of decades of "embrace, extend, extinguish".

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