+ Sparc architecture
+
+ --
+ OLD COMMENT from GHC-3.02:
+
+ We want tailjumps to be calls, because `call xxx' is the only Sparc
+ branch that allows an arbitrary label as a target. (Gcc's ``goto
+ *target'' construct ends up loading the label into a register and
+ then jumping, at the cost of two extra instructions for the 32-bit
+ load.)
+
+ When entering the threaded world, we stash our return address in a
+ known location so that \tr{%i7} is available as an extra
+ callee-saves register. Of course, we have to restore this when
+ coming out of the threaded world.
+
+ I hate this god-forsaken architecture. Since the top of the
+ reserved stack space is used for globals and the bottom is reserved
+ for outgoing arguments, we have to stick our return address
+ somewhere in the middle. Currently, I'm allowing 100 extra
+ outgoing arguments beyond the first 6. --JSM
+
+ Updated info (GHC 4.06): we don't appear to use %i7 any more, so
+ I'm not sure whether we still need to save it. Incedentally, what
+ does the last paragraph above mean when it says "the top of the
+ stack is used for globals"? What globals? --SDM
+