x86-64 stub calling convention

Vladimir Kozlov vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com
Fri Jun 29 20:04:55 PDT 2012


XMM registers are Save On Call (saved by caller) so you can use them in stub without saving. Look on arraycopy stabs 
where we use XMM registers.

Vladimir

On 6/29/12 6:27 PM, Deneau, Tom wrote:
> Hi --
>
> Can someone point me to the x86-64 calling convention for stubs created
> by stubGenerator?  In particular, which xmm registers if any must be preserved
> and which are volatile.
>
> -- Tom Deneau
>


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