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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway. This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available."

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