Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/8] tools/nolibc: i386: Implement syscall with 6 arguments

From: Ammar Faizi
Date: Tue Mar 22 2022 - 09:37:17 EST


On 3/22/22 8:34 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
I turned out GCC refuses to use "rm" if we compile without -fomit-frame-pointer
(e.g. without optimization / -O0). So I will still use "m" here.

OK that's fine. then you can probably simplify it like this:

long _arg6 = (long)(arg6); /* Might be in memory */ \
\
asm volatile ( \
"pushl %%ebp\n\t" \
"movl %[_arg6], %%ebp\n\t" \
"int $0x80\n\t" \
"popl %%ebp\n\t" \
: "=a"(_ret) \
: "r"(_num), "r"(_arg1), "r"(_arg2), "r"(_arg3), \
"r"(_arg4),"r"(_arg5), [_arg6]"m"(_arg6) \
: "memory", "cc" \
); \

See ? no more push, no more addl, direct load from memory.

Uggh... I crafted the same code like you suggested before, but then
I realized it's buggy, it's buggy because %[_arg6] may live in N(%esp).

When you pushl %ebp, the %esp changes, N(%esp) no longer points to the
6-th argument.

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Ammar Faizi