Re: How does "rsi" get set in x86 prologue?

[Gautam Bhat]

On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote:
<SNIP>
> The call into the prologue comes from:
>
>   ret = tcg_qemu_tb_exec(cpu_env(cpu), tb_ptr);
>
> in cpu_tb_exec. With env in RDI and tb_ptr (the code address) being in
> RSI.
>
>
> --
> Alex Bennée
> Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro

Thanks Alex. So this would be regular function calling conventions. I
thought there would be some inline assembly to the jump to the disas
rather
then a call to tcg_qemu_tb_exec(..)

I verified all of this in the gdb disas of the function.

-Gautam.