[Sbcl-devel] x86 calling convention

[Alastair B. <nye...@li...>]

Hello all, 

As many of you are aware, a popular topic of discussion on #lisp IRC is the 
x86 calling convention in SBCL. With the aim of making this topic unpopular, 
I present the following patch, which contains a small change to the 
implementation of the existing convention. It may-or-may-not be a win, 
performancewise. SBCL still built with this patch in place, with 14/14 
contribs. I didn't bother to run the test suite. 

Feedback appreciated, particularly on style issues and gotchas that I may 
not have considered. 

 --Alastair Bridgewater