[Info-vax] Native compilers

[John Reagan]

On Tuesday, February 22, 2022 at 1:59:37 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-02-21, John Reagan <xyzz... at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > On Monday, February 21, 2022 at 2:26:44 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote: 
> >> Is there any chance we can have a look at the generated code for this ? 
> >> 
> >> Would be interesting to see what it looks like...
> > .text 
> > .cfi_sections .eh_frame 
> > .globl LIB$PUT_OUTPUT 
> > .globl SS$_NORMAL 
> > .globl ELF$TFRADR 
> > .set ELF$TFRADR, START 
> > .file 1 "DKA100:[JREAGAN]HW.MAR;2" 
> > .section CODE,"ax", at progbits 
> > .globl START 
> > .type START, at function 
> > .p2align 4, 0x90 
> > START: 
> > .cfi_startproc
> [snip example] 
> 
> Thank you for posting the example John. 
> 
> It's nice having a greater number of registers to work with than 
> the traditional Intel x86 architecture isn't it ? :-)
> Simon. 
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP 
> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.
~8 vs ~16  Ugh.  Compared to Alpha's 32 and Itanium's 128.   

However, gcc has lived forever in this environment with putting variables on the
stack and hoping that the cache saves the day.