Chapter 4 - PowerPC Runtime Conventions
This chapter covers specific low-level details of the PowerPC runtime environment, including the following:
These conventions may be useful for low-level programming (if you are writing in assembly language, for example) or for optimizing higher-level code.
- data storage types
- stack structure
- routine calling conventions
Chapter Contents
- Data Types
- Data Alignment
- PowerPC Stack Structure
- Prologs and Epilogs
- The Red Zone
- Routine Calling Conventions
- Function Return
- Register Preservation