D Language Quarterly Meeting Summary for January 2021

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 10:56:57PM +0000, Elronnd via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Friday, 21 January 2022 at 12:55:58 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
> > I still believe it should be fairly simple:
> > 
> > https://forum.dlang.org/post/ofc0lj$2u4h$1@digitalmars.com
> 
> There is a simpler solution: put the context pointer in rax.  This is
> currently a caller-saved register, so there is no problem with
> clobbering it.  It is used for c-style variadics, but not d-style
> ones.  Since it is a register, nothing breaks when you have more
> parameters than fit in registers.  Any other problems?

This may work for x86, but does it work for other platforms? If not, it
won't fly on LDC/GDC.


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