Re: vs 8 bug ?
"gordon" <gordon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E435655B-AE3E-484E-976A-6F24B703E7C0@microsoft.com...
Hi Forum,
I have some disassembly to post which I think indicates a bug ... if not,
then hopefully one of the gurus here can tell me what I'm doing wrong ...
The scenario here is a .exe making a call to a __declspec( dllexport )
declared c function ... both projects are configured for _cdecl linkage
...
What follows are two dissambly blocks, the first with the ** alleged **
bug,
and the second with what seems to ** fix ** the alleged bug ...
------------------------ "bad" code block
------------------------------------------
pApuUpdateHWclock(fCurrentSimulationTime);
00401266 83 EC 08 sub esp,8
00401269 DD 45 A8 fld qword ptr [ebp-58h]
0040126C DD 1C 24 fstp qword ptr [esp]
0040126F FF 15 E8 D4 47 00 call dword ptr [_pApuUpdateHWclock
(47D4E8h)]
// __asm nop
_pApuFubar(x);
00401275 DD 45 E0 fld qword ptr [ebp-20h]
00401278 DD 1C 24 fstp qword ptr [esp]
.
.
.
--------------------------------"good" code block --------------------
pApuUpdateHWclock(fCurrentSimulationTime);
00401266 83 EC 08 sub esp,8
00401269 DD 45 A8 fld qword ptr [ebp-58h]
0040126C DD 1C 24 fstp qword ptr [esp]
0040126F FF 15 E8 D4 47 00 call dword ptr [_pApuUpdateHWclock
(47D4E8h)]
00401275 83 C4 08 add esp,8
__asm nop
00401278 90 nop
_pApuFubar(x);
00401279 83 EC 08 sub esp,8
0040127C DD 45 E0 fld qword ptr [ebp-20h]
.
.
.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So, obviously, inserting a nop into the instruction stream has "corrected"
the stack cleanup issue ...
The version without the nop optimized away "ESP += 8; ESP -= 8;". I must be
missing something, but why do you think one is right and one is wrong? Is
one crashing? It would be useful to show a little bit more code, like the
declaration of the extern function and the entire C code of the caller.
Also include the disassembly as far as the next call instruction in that
function.
What gives , gurus ?
Best Regards ,
gordon
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