Predictable pipelining and delay slots were easy to adjust to and understand, and I love the idea of a rotating register file with zero-copy call stack, even though it's impractical today. The author claims memorizing how the registers overwrite one another is complicated, but I don't think so at all. G registers are global (with g0 always being 0). L registers are local. I (input) registers are the interface with the caller, O (output registers) are the interface with the callee, and the overlapping register window just moves so that O registers are I registers in the called function.
Elegant.
Also the author goes on to praise x86, which is absolutely fucking bananas if you care about not having to rote memorize register names.
I'm calling a function with four word-sized arguments. In SPARC they go in %o0, %o1, %o2, and %o3. Where do they go in x86?
Elegant.
Also the author goes on to praise x86, which is absolutely fucking bananas if you care about not having to rote memorize register names.
I'm calling a function with four word-sized arguments. In SPARC they go in %o0, %o1, %o2, and %o3. Where do they go in x86?