Machine- and ABI-dependent layout information for activation records.
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In the PowerPC/EABI application binary interface,
the general shape of activation records is as follows,
from bottom (lowest offsets) to top:
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8 reserved bytes. The first 4 bytes hold the back pointer to the
activation record of the caller. The next 4 bytes are reserved
for called functions to store their return addresses.
Since we would rather store our return address in our own
frame, we will not use these 4 bytes, and just reserve them.
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Space for outgoing arguments to function calls.
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Local stack slots.
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Saved values of callee-save registers used by the function.
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Space for the stack-allocated data declared in Cminor.
The
frame_env compilation environment records the positions of
the boundaries between areas in the frame part.
Computation of the frame environment from the bounds of the current
function.
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