Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!world!iecc!compilers-sender From: jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk (John ffitch) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: SPARC references Keywords: SPARC, optimize, code Message-ID: <1991Mar28.115715.3545@maths.bath.ac.uk> Date: 28 Mar 91 11:57:15 GMT References: <1991Mar20.222801.11711@cs.cornell.edu> <1991Mar24.222923.10183@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Sender: compilers-sender@iecc.cambridge.ma.us Reply-To: John ffitch Organization: School of Maths, Bath University, UK Lines: 15 Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us There was reference to a book by Dewar and Smosna which compared SPARC and MIPS. Does anyone know the publisher? I have been unable to trace it in our library. So far my experience of SPARC has been less than good, as the explanation in the Architecture manual leaves a lot to the imagination. Some thing which really explained what happens to the stack or window roll, how va_args is supposed to work, and so on would be really helpful. In my code someone keeps trampling on the stack, and honest guv' it's not me! ==John -- Send compilers articles to compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us or {ima | spdcc | world}!iecc!compilers. Meta-mail to compilers-request.