[LLVMdev] Do explicitly managed stack frames free the stack register?

[Chris Lattner]

On Aug 16, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Sandro Magi wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, now that explicitly managed stack frames [1]
> are possible (given support in the code generators), is the stack
> register freed for other uses when the LLVM system stack isn't being
> used?

Nope, the stack pointer (e.g. ESP) is still needed for local spill  
code within the function, allocas, etc.

-Chris