Re: syscall macro fails upon compilation

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> They were *always* broken for 64-bit arguments on 32-bit machines, however.
> 
> Well syscall() doesn't support that at all (unless you split by hand)
> 

On i386 it just happens to work, because the calling convention is
equivalent.  On some other 32-bit platforms it works that way as well;
on others, it fails.

To do it right you need a proper assembly stub generator.

	-hpa

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