how can I save some stack space?

[litwr]

I have found out that the vanilla A500 doesn't support system calls working with filename patterns. So I have written a small library which can be used with any Amiga. Some functions in this library are recursive so I have to think how to reduce the stack load. The best way I know is to save only 16-bit data of pointers. So instead of a plain MOVEM.L I use

     suba.l a3,a2
     suba.l a3,a4
     suba.l a3,a5
     movem.w a2/a4/a5,-(sp)
     bsr parse
     movem.w (sp)+,a2/a4/a5
     adda.l a3,a2
     adda.l a3,a4
     adda.l a3,a5

where A3 is my basereg. It works but I am looking for a better way. Maybe someone knows some other good tricks for this? Thank you.

[Don_Adan]

Originally Posted by litwr

I have found out that the vanilla A500 doesn't support system calls working with filename patterns. So I have written a small library which can be used with any Amiga. Some functions in this library are recursive so I have to think how to reduce the stack load. The best way I know is to save only 16-bit data of pointers. So instead of a plain MOVEM.L I use

     suba.l a3,a2
     suba.l a3,a4
     suba.l a3,a5
     movem.w a2/a4/a5,-(sp)
     bsr parse
     movem.w (sp)+,a2/a4/a5
     adda.l a3,a2
     adda.l a3,a4
     adda.l a3,a5

where A3 is my basereg. It works but I am looking for a better way. Maybe someone knows some other good tricks for this? Thank you.

Better dont use movem.w for address registers, because it will be good works only for maximum 15 bits values.

I dont know size of your a2/a3/a4 registers, but for your example, i will use next code:
bsr.w parse
lea xx(a3),a2
lea yy(a3),a4
lea zz(a3),a5

[litwr]

Thank you. It seems there are no easy ways to get less stack loading.