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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." Having done this before, it reminds me of CSS programming: you make a little change here and everything breaks, and you spend hours chasing your own tail. Adding anything will cause the same effect.

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