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HASKELL
2009
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Types are calling conventions
It is common for compilers to derive the calling convention of a function from its type. Doing so is simple and modular but misses many optimisation opportunities, particularly in...
Maximilian C. Bolingbroke, Simon L. Peyton Jones
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DEON
2006
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
On the Normative Aspect of Signalling Conventions
The paper outlines an approach to the formal representation of signalling conventions, emphasising the prominent role played therein by a particular type of normative modality. It ...
Andrew J. I. Jones, Steven O. Kimbrough
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POPL
2006
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Staged allocation: a compositional technique for specifying and implementing procedure calling conventions
We present staged allocation, a technique for specifying calling conventions by composing tiny allocators called stages. A specification written using staged allocation has a prec...
Reuben Olinsky, Christian Lindig, Norman Ramsey
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AADEBUG
2005
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Random testing of C calling conventions
In a C compiler, function calls are difficult to implement correctly because they must respect a platform-specific calling convention. But they are governed by a simple invariant...
Christian Lindig
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ML
2008
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
Calling variadic functions from a strongly-typed language
The importance of providing a mechanism to call C functions from high-level languages has been understood for many years and, these days, almost all statically-typed high-level-la...
Matthias Blume, Mike Rainey, John H. Reppy