[maemo-developers] Java acceleration/Jazelle

[From: Simon Pickering]

Hi Siarhei,

>> Does anyone know whether there are there any good docs/books on ARM asm
>> programming, telling people these sort of things? This is an interesting
>> (and hopefully useful) learning experience, but can be really frustrating
>> when I know what I want to do, and pretty much how to, but not quite! :)
>> E.g. calling functions in linked libraries, how to call .s file functions
>> from C, what is and isn't allowed in in-line asm, etc.
>
> I would recommend checking the following documentation from ARM website:

<snip>

> http://www.arm.com/pdfs/aapcs.pdf
> "Procedure Call Standard for the ARM Architecture" for the information about
> calling conventions and arguments passing between asm and C and generally
> about ABI.

I'd not spotted this one, thank you for the pointer.

Simon