...It therefore does not know in which registers / stack slots to put which argument, etc...

...by Sun.  If I remember correctly, the only scratch registers are EAX and EDX.


Sean

...one (or if possible, two) of these registers in some assmbly code and want to...

How would that allow an 8-byte struct to be passed in registers on Linux?

...s showing what is happening with which registers. But I'm sure that it would...

...to the pointer still being in the registers. You might want to try executing some...

...when you have things like memory-mapped registers and memory locations that change on interrupts...

...ve written code that uses memory mapped registers. Even in programs that manipulate hardware directly...

...what about things like accessing memory-mapped registers?  That is, as a hint to the...

...than x86, because parameters are passed inside registers). But I'm not really familiar with...