Re: 2.3.30pre1 syscall w/6 args support?

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 23:47:36 +0100 (CET)


On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The problem with SYSEXIT is that it clobbers %edx and %ecx (or whatever -
> I forget what the registers were and I'm too lazy to look them up), and

(yep it's %edx+%ecx for SYSEXIT)

> that makes it nasty to use for the generic case. But we'd have that user-
> space fixup area..

hm, i'm not sure wether glibc relies on int $80 not clobbering %edx and
%ecx.

-- mingo

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