Re: x86-64 and calling conventions

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> As far as passing arguments in registers, there is at least one
> convention (possibly SPARC, but I am not sure now) where some are
> passed in registers, but stack space is still reserved for them.  The
> called routine can then store them into the stack.  As some number of
> words are kept in the registers, in some cases a double variable will
> be half in a register and half on the stack.  Storing to the stack is
> a convenient way to get the two back together again.

This is the case for 32-bit PowerPC.

Bolek