Stackmaps [6/6] JavaScript calling convention.

[Rafael Espíndola]

On 18 October 2013 01:45, Andrew Trick <atrick at apple.com> wrote:
> This one of a series of patches to support webkit intrinsics. See the llvm-dev thread "Stackmap and Patchpoint Intrinsic Proposal".
>
> This patch introduces a very simple calling convention for JavaScript that pushes arguments on the stack and returns a value in RAX.
>

Why can't the JS engine use the regular C calling convention?

Cheers,
Rafael