Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG for -mregparm=3

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 04:45:06 EST


On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:34:59AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 10:06, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> >
> > According to some gcc developers it should be safe to use in all
> > gccs that are still supports (2.95 and up)
>
> it is not safe for the kernel until the cardbus CardServices patches get
> merged (is in -mm), for the same reason CardServices() is broken on
> amd64.

Just mark them asmlinkage then.

I would be a shame to leave that much space saving on the table just
for an single misdesigned API than can be easily fixed.

-Andi
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