Target Definitions for R8C/M16C/M32C Copyright (C) 2005-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Contributed by Red Hat. This file is part of GCC. GCC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. GCC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GCC; see the file COPYING3. If not see . These are just some random notes I used during development of this port. Please don't consider these to be "official" specifications, just additional information to help make the code easier to understand. Frame ===== +-------------------- | incoming args +-------------------- | return Address osp -> +-------------------- | saved fp fp -> +-------------------- | local data +-------------------- | saved regs +-------------------- | outgoing args (opt) sp -> +-------------------- Argument Passing ================ r8c, m16c --------- First arg may be passed in r1l or r1 if it (1) fits (QImode or HImode), (2) is named, and (3) is an integer or pointer type (no structs, floats, etc). Otherwise, it's passed on the stack. Second arg may be passed in r2, same restrictions (but not QImode), even if the first arg is passed on the stack. Third and further args are passed on the stack. No padding is used, stack "alignment" is 8 bits. m32cm, m32c ----------- First arg may be passed in r0l or r0, same restrictions as above. Second and further args are passed on the stack. Padding is used after QImode parameters (i.e. lower-addressed byte is the value, higher-addressed byte is the padding), stack "alignment" is 16 bits. Return Value ============ r8c, m16c --------- QImode in r0l HImode in r0 near pointer in r0 (desired) SImode in r2r0 far pointer in r2r0 (actual) Anything bigger than 16 bits is returned in memory, at mem0 (mem0 through mem15 are provided by libgcc.a) Aggregate values (regardless of size) are returned by pushing a pointer to a temporary area on the stack after the args are pushed. The function fills in this area with the value. Note that this pointer on the stack does not affect how register arguments, if any, are configured. m32cm, m32c ----------- Same. Registers Preserved Across Calls ================================ r8c, m16c --------- sb, fb, sp (i.e. nearly all registers are call clobbered) m32cm, m32c ----------- r1, r2, r3, a0, a1, sb, fb, sp (except when used for return values) Interrupt Handlers ================== The stack frame is slightly different for interrupt handlers, because (1) we don't have a usable parent frame, and (2) we have to use special instructions to return and thus must save/restore everything differently. +-------------------- | program state osp -> +-------------------- | return address +-------------------- | saved r0..fp (pushm) fp -> +-------------------- | local data +-------------------- | saved regs mem0..mem15 +-------------------- | outgoing args (opt) sp -> +--------------------