[m68k] asm regression with 3.3/3.4/3.5

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Wed May 12 21:36:00 GMT 2004


Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>
>> Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:
>>
>>> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> Glibc depends heavily on being able to force a specific register to be
>>>> able to do inline syscalls.
>>>
>>> On the x86 we have a complete set of single-register constraint
>>> letters so this isn't a problem.
>>
>> Yes, but all the other sane architectures don't.
>
> But do all the 'other sane architectures' also use wacky argument-
> passing conventions for system calls?

What's wacky about passing syscall arguments in registers?  All linux
architectures do that, independent of the normal function call
conventions.

Andreas.

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