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Reclaiming %ebp for application use was worth a lot more than 1% back in the day. Now that pretty much everything is on architectures with much less register pr
by khuey 4y ago
Reclaiming %ebp for application use was worth a lot more than 1% back in the day. Now that pretty much everything is on architectures with much less register pressure than 32 bit x86 the tradeoff is more questionable.
- anarazel 4y agoFrom memory, gcc's switch to omitting frame pointers by default on x86 was in the late 2000s - when amd64 was at least clearly on the winning path, if it hadn't already. I understand changing it on 32bit x86, but...