On Wed, Jan 9, 2013, at 11:04 AM, John McCall wrote:
> There is no one standard calling convention on ARM;  ARM has revised its
> suggested ABI multiple times.  iOS follows a relatively old convention
> which, among other things, does not pass floating-point arguments in
> floating-point registers.  This is suboptimal but not fixable without a
> total ABI break.

That's what I was afraid of. :( Did Apple take advantage of the move to
ARMv7 to introduce a more performant calling convention?

Moreover, this seems like information that should be documented as well
for iOS as it is for the desktop.

--Kyle Sluder
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