[llvm-commits] [PATCH] Erlang/HiPE prologue

[Yiannis Tsiouris]

On 11/16/2012 05:19 PM, Yiannis Tsiouris wrote:
> This is the 2nd patch we would like to submit upstream in order to add
> proper support for Erlang.
>
> The scenario that this patch tries to address is:
>
> HiPE (native-)compiled Erlang functions have some code prepended to the
> asm generated that computes how large a stack frame it will need for a
> function, then compares that with the minimum available size that the
> calling convention guarantees, and if the needed size is larger than the
> guaranteed available size, it calls a BIF ("inc_stack_0").
>
> Is this "good" enough to be pushed upstream?
>    
Ping! :-)

If the patch is rather "unusual"/wrong, please sent some comments. I 'll 
try to address them ASAP!

Best,
Yiannis

-- 
Yiannis Tsiouris
Ph.D. student,
Software Engineering Laboratory,
National Technical University of Athens
WWW: http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~gtsiour

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