PPC Calling conventions

The PowerPC uses the standard AIX or SysV calling conventions.

SysV calling conventions are described in

SYSTEM V APPLICATION BINARY INTERFACE
PowerPC Processor Supplement by
Steve Zucker, SunSoft
Kari Karhi, IBM

Methods

Self is passed in r3.

Nested functions

The parent frame pointer is passed in r3.

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