A new calling convention in VS2013

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at ubuntu.com
Sat Jul 13 04:11:18 PDT 2013


On Saturday, 13 July 2013 at 10:36:01 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Through Reddit I've found an article about 
> vector-calling-convention added to VS2013:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/07/12/introducing-vector-calling-convention.aspx
>

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>
> Are those vector calling conventions useful for D too?
>
> Bye,
> bearophile


I'd vote for not adding more fluff which makes ABI differences 
between compilers greater.  But it certainly looks like if would 
be useful if you wish to save the time taken to copy the vector 
from XMM registers onto the stack and back again when passing 
values around.


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