Daniël Mantione wrote:
Op Sat, 19 Jan 2008, schreef Jonas Maebe:
On 19 Jan 2008, at 15:54, Peter Vreman wrote:
This call and pop is old-style PIC and not good for new cpus because
it breaks the call-stack. Please use the new style that calls a
function (fpc_geteipasebx). This also generated by the compiler. See
i386/cgcpu.pas and search for g_maybe_got_init.
I recently read that on the more recent processors, call/pop is
slightly faster again (I suppose they detect a call to next
instruction and don't add it to the internal call stack or so).
http://lists.apple.com/archives/perfoptimization-dev/2007/Nov/msg00005.html
Intel cpu's since Pentium M and AMD cpu's since Barcelona indeed have a
stack analyzer. I'm still going to switch back to the fpc_geteipasebx
helper since the extra call/ret penalty on those processors is small
while the penalty of a broken call stack is large.
Just for my information, this callstack, is it "tracked" by the CPU or
generated by FPC. I somehow fail to see why a call&pop will affect the
callstack in case it is generated.
Marc
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