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by camel-cdr 906 days ago
> It's incredibly complicated for likely no real world reason

Can you explain or link to somewhere to read about this? Isn't psABI quite simple?

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Sure. It's the section here https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-elf-psabi-doc/blob/ma...

It's that structs of two simple fields need to be passed in registers. And more specifically that this rule is relevant for mixed integer and floating point fields.

It's a very specific rule that requires a ton of code to implement compared to the integer calling convention. And again like the weird AMD64 convention likely invented to squeeze out a theoretical few cycles that never occur outside microbenchmarks