This was covered in a couple of WWDC talks.  Look for the sessions on debugging.

-jcr

On Sep 9, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Sean McBride wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 19:52:54 -0700, Jerry Krinock said:
> 
>> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2004/tn2124.html >
>> "Architecture Considerations"
> 
> Sadly this awesome technote has not been updated in 3 years.  We should
> all file bugs. :)
> 
>> But there's a problem.  I see you've got a 64-bit machine.  The first
>> article says that "64-bit Intel restores sanity to the equation by
>> passing arguments in registers", but he doesn't say which registers, and
>> neither does the Apple Technical Note.
>> 
>> I'm going to have to get a 64-bit Mac one of these days.  Does anyone
>> know the register mapping for Intel 64?
> 
> Forgot where I got this (ie credit not mine), but:
> 
> given:
> -(id)method:(id)arg2 bar:(id)arg3 baz:(id)arg4
> 
>                ppc/ppc64:  x86_64:     i386:
> arg0 (self)     $r3         $rdi        *(id*)($ebp + 8)
> arg1 (_cmd)     $r4         $rsi        *(SEL*)($ebp + 12)
> arg2            $r5         $rdx        *(id*)($ebp + 16)
> arg3            $r6         $rcx        *(id*)($ebp + 20)
> arg4            $r7         $r8         ?
> arg5            $r8         $r9         ?
> 
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