On 05/23/2013 09:28 AM, Richard Earnshaw wrote: > Doing that would add significantly to the cost of setting up the frame.
It shouldn't... > > FRAME_GROWS_DOWNWARD > Define this macro to nonzero value if the addresses of local variable slots > are > at negative offsets from the frame pointer. Yes, but that's FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM, not HARD_FRAME_POINTER_REGNUM, i.e. the SOFT frame pointer. After register elimination there should be zero differences in the local frame except for the actual order of the local variables. r~