context 2.0.1

Cooperative multitasking for Rust using Boost.Context
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/*
            Copyright Oliver Kowalke 2009.
   Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
      (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
            http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
*/

/****************************************************************************************
 *                                                                                      *
 *  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  *
 *  |    0    |    1    |    2    |    3    |    4     |    5    |    6    |    7    |  *
 *  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  *
 *  |   0x0   |   0x4   |   0x8   |   0xc   |   0x10   |   0x14  |   0x18  |   0x1c  |  *
 *  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  *
 *  |        R12        |         R13       |         R14        |        R15        |  *
 *  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  *
 *  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  *
 *  |    8    |    9    |   10    |   11    |    12    |    13   |    14   |    15   |  *
 *  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  *
 *  |   0x20  |   0x24  |   0x28  |  0x2c   |   0x30   |   0x34  |   0x38  |   0x3c  |  *
 *  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  *
 *  |        RBX        |         RBP       |         RIP        |       EXIT        |  *
 *  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  *
 *                                                                                      *
 ****************************************************************************************/

.text
.globl _make_fcontext
.align 8
_make_fcontext:
    /* first arg of make_fcontext() == top of context-stack */
    movq  %rdi, %rax

    /* shift address in RAX to lower 16 byte boundary */
    movabs  $-16,           %r8
    andq    %r8,            %rax

    /* reserve space for context-data on context-stack */
    /* on context-function entry: (RSP -0x8) % 16 == 0 */
    leaq  -0x40(%rax), %rax

    /* third arg of make_fcontext() == address of context-function */
    movq  %rdx, 0x30(%rax)

    /* compute abs address of label finish */
    leaq  finish(%rip), %rcx
    /* save address of finish as return-address for context-function */
    /* will be entered after context-function returns */
    movq  %rcx, 0x38(%rax)

    ret /* return pointer to context-data */

finish:
    /* exit code is zero */
    xorq  %rdi, %rdi
    /* exit application */
    call  __exit
    hlt