Re: [PATCH] x86-64: adjust ia32entry.S

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Nov 11 2005 - 10:35:10 EST


On Wednesday 09 November 2005 17:10, Jan Beulich wrote:
> IA32 compatibility entry points needlessly played with extended
> registers. Additionally, frame unwind information was still incorrect
> for ia32_ptregs_common (sorry, my fault).

What do you mean with needlessly played? That it didn't initialize
all on the stack frame? That was more a feature than a bug.
Did it cause you problems?

In general I'm weary of making the asm macros more complex
(adding more arguments etc.) Please keep it simple.

-Andi
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