Am 20.11.2019 um 23:52 schrieb Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal:
On Nov 20, 2019, at 1:56 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
<fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
It returns the address of the caller's frame pointer. See also
https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/get_caller_frame.html
It's mainly used in context of raising exceptions with the help of a second
function. See here:
https://freepascal.org/docs-html/current/ref/refse112.html#x227-24900017.1
I guess I don't know what a frame pointer is. I thought it meant a pointer to
the current stack frame and so I was curious if the RTL could include a way to
copy the stack with the pointer and restore it later. Is that not how it works?
No. On x86 it's essentially the content of the EBP/RBP register which is
(assuming no optimizations are done) essentially the ESP/RSP register of
the calling function. This is only used by the exception handling to
have the exception appear to be raised somewhere else.
The exception handling itself does not need it. The generic mechanism
for example is a stack of exception frames (both except- and
finally-blocks) and the exception handling code calls the handlers from
top to bottom (thus executing explicit destructors (bla.Free) and
implicit reference count decreases) before restoring the state using
LongJmp (which also restores the original stack pointer register). The
SEH and PSABIEH mechanisms that FPC supports work in a similar way (e.g.
the SEH on Win32 is a single linked list).
Regards,
Sven
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