Does D (DMD/Win) use ES, FS & GS for anything?

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Sun May 25 23:59:30 PDT 2008


Me Here wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
> 
>> In general, I think following the x86 C ABI is the best approach insofar as
>> register allocation and such is concerned.  I don't have the link handy, but
>> I believe it was published by Sun.
> 
> I don't suppose I could impose on you for a few more clues as to what you are
> remembering?
> 
> Every search I've done looking for x86 ABI (with or without C and/or Sun) is
> turning up the
> AMD64 ABI...which doesn't seem to applicable to what I'm trying to do. 
> 
> (It may in the future if I ever try to code for 64-bit, but what I'm working on 
> is so machine wordsize specific that everything will have to change anyway).
> 
> Thanks for any and all latent memory pointers you can provide :)

I think this is the one I was referring to:

http://www.sco.com/developers/devspecs/abi386-4.pdf


Sean



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