<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Caller Saves - GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Stack-and-Calling.html#Stack-and-Calling" title="Stack and Calling"> <link rel="prev" href="Aggregate-Return.html#Aggregate-Return" title="Aggregate Return"> <link rel="next" href="Function-Entry.html#Function-Entry" title="Function Entry"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 1988-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being ``Funding Free Software'', the Front-Cover Texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. (a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is: A GNU Manual (b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Caller-Saves"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Function-Entry.html#Function-Entry">Function Entry</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Aggregate-Return.html#Aggregate-Return">Aggregate Return</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Stack-and-Calling.html#Stack-and-Calling">Stack and Calling</a> <hr> </div> <h4 class="subsection">17.9.10 Caller-Saves Register Allocation</h4> <p>If you enable it, GCC can save registers around function calls. This makes it possible to use call-clobbered registers to hold variables that must live across calls. <div class="defun"> — Macro: <b>HARD_REGNO_CALLER_SAVE_MODE</b> (<var>regno, nregs</var>)<var><a name="index-HARD_005fREGNO_005fCALLER_005fSAVE_005fMODE-4289"></a></var><br> <blockquote><p>A C expression specifying which mode is required for saving <var>nregs</var> of a pseudo-register in call-clobbered hard register <var>regno</var>. If <var>regno</var> is unsuitable for caller save, <code>VOIDmode</code> should be returned. For most machines this macro need not be defined since GCC will select the smallest suitable mode. </p></blockquote></div> </body></html>