Linda Walsh wrote:
>
> I have some code that includes asm-i386/unistd.h and has defines for
> the functions I want to call (audit related)
>
> Thing is, that I want to also be able to call those functions in
> a shared library compiled with -fpic (or -fPIC). When I use the
> fpic option to gcc, I get:
>
> asm-audit.h: In function `aud_setluid':
> asm-audit.h:17: Invalid `asm' statement:
> asm-audit.h:17: fixed or forbidden register 3 (bx) was spilled for class BREG.
>
> That line contains:
> _syscall1(int, aud_setluid, uid_t, luid)
>
> Basically and syscall definition I use that has input arguments gets
> the above error message. Functions with no arguments generate no
> error.
>
> The problem appears to lie in gcc's global register allocator. 'greg'.
> So what I'm wondering is "does this point to a bug in gcc"? or is there
> some different way the syscalls could be defined to make them portable
> between both cases?
PIC code on the x86 reserves the %ebx register for an offset pointer,
but the syscall interface defines %ebx as the first argument of a
syscall. Glibc works around this by pushing and popping %ebx around the
syscall. You would need something like this:
#define _syscall1(type,name,type1,arg1) \
type name(type1 arg1) \
{ \
long __res; \
__asm__ volatile ("pushl %%ebx; movl %2, %%ebx; int $0x80; popl %%ebx" \
: "=a" (__res) \
: "0" (__NR_##name),"g" ((long)(arg1))); \
__syscall_return(type,__res); \
}
--Brian Gerst
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