Register Conventions and Calling Discipline: Review Checklist

Review checklist

Review Checklist for Register Conventions and Calling Discipline is anchored on Function-call overhead (instructions per call), spill/reload rate, and ABI conformance pass rate in integration tests.. Convert observations into mechanism-backed decisions with explicit ownership.

• Workload scope and KPI targets are explicit.

• Environment metadata is locked and reproducible.

• Mechanism classification is evidence-backed.

• Owner and rollback conditions are documented.

• Validation matrix covers correctness, perf, and power.

• Owners signed: compiler backend owner, runtime and libc owner, firmware and RTOS owner, debug and tooling owner, silicon validation owner.