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AMD64 unwind info gotchas

I had a brief e-mail exchange with one of the devs on the optimizer team about a checkin he put up for review. He modified the compiler so that it only aligns the stack for functions that call other functions - that's the typical definition in compiler Read More...

Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 10:34 AM by Kevin Frei | (Comments Off)

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Speaking in 'public'...

I'll be hanging out with the cool kids at the Northwest C++ Users Group tomorrow night. If you're in the area, and want to heckle me, swing by. We'll be in building 40 at 6:30 PM. My talk starts at 7:00 PM. I'm talking about the actual runtime cost of Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:35 PM by Kevin Frei | 4 Comments

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What does "Hot Patchability" mean and what is it for?

Explains in hand-wavy, high level terms what hot-patchability is, why you might want it, and how it works. Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:10 PM by Kevin Frei | 5 Comments

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x64 ABI vs. x86 ABI (aka Calling Conventions for AMD64 & EM64T)

A Summary of the x64 calling conventions with links to the official document - a handy reference for folks just starting to port a compiler, or needing to author some assembly code. Read More...

Posted Monday, March 06, 2006 3:00 PM by Kevin Frei | 14 Comments

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