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On 2/15/2018 3:01 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
On 15 February 2018 at 06:40, Thomas Buergel wrote:
Looks like there was a bug in luaffi when passing parameters to
functions on the stack on x86-64 platform. I have not found definitive
documentation clarifying this (if anyone can provide a reference that
would be very helpful) but it seems that stack arguments must be at 8
byte boundaries.

The two dominant x86-64 calling conventions in an overview:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions#x86-64_calling_conventions

For once, the one used on Windows is simpler:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/calling-convention

Especially varargs can be a challenge on the SysV x86-64 ABI:
https://blog.nelhage.com/2010/10/amd64-and-va_arg/



Thank you - I was aware of the first two references but there doesn't
seem to be a discussion on the requirements of size/alignment of
arguments passed on the stack.

I found following:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32614007/size-and-alignment-of-x64-stack-arguments

And:

http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/elf/x86_64-abi-0.99.pdf

Above says:

The size of each argument gets rounded up to eightbytes

Don't forget Agner Fog (I guess he's more familiar to older folks), see the doc on calling conventions:

http://www.agner.org/optimize/


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Selangor, Malaysia