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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] arch/um/sys-i386/setjmp.S: useless #ifdef _REGPARM's?
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:28:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060822192814.GA19896@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060822174233.GA5471@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 01:42:33PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:07:41PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > I didn't find a corresponding open bug in the gcc Bugzilla.
> > 
> > Can someone verify whether it's still present, and if yes, open a gcc 
> > bug?
> 
> Yup, it's easy enough to check.

Thanks.

> > It's set globally in arch/i386/Makefile:
> >   cflags-$(CONFIG_REGPARM) += -mregparm=3
> 
> IIRC, there used to be functions explicitly declared as __regparam or
> something, and that's what I was grepping for.  Does this turn every
> function with three or fewer parameters into a regparam function?
>...

With -mregparm=3, the first up to three parameters that aren't bigger 
than an integer are passed in registers instead of on the stack.

> 				Jeff

cu
Adrian

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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] arch/um/sys-i386/setjmp.S: useless #ifdef _REGPARM's?
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:28:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060822192814.GA19896@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060822174233.GA5471@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 01:42:33PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:07:41PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > I didn't find a corresponding open bug in the gcc Bugzilla.
> > 
> > Can someone verify whether it's still present, and if yes, open a gcc 
> > bug?
> 
> Yup, it's easy enough to check.

Thanks.

> > It's set globally in arch/i386/Makefile:
> >   cflags-$(CONFIG_REGPARM) += -mregparm=3
> 
> IIRC, there used to be functions explicitly declared as __regparam or
> something, and that's what I was grepping for.  Does this turn every
> function with three or fewer parameters into a regparam function?
>...

With -mregparm=3, the first up to three parameters that aren't bigger 
than an integer are passed in registers instead of on the stack.

> 				Jeff

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-22 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-21 21:56 [uml-devel] arch/um/sys-i386/setjmp.S: useless #ifdef _REGPARM's? Adrian Bunk
2006-08-21 21:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-22  2:20 ` [uml-devel] " Jeff Dike
2006-08-22  2:20   ` Jeff Dike
2006-08-22 16:07   ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-22 16:07     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-22 17:42     ` Jeff Dike
2006-08-22 17:42       ` Jeff Dike
2006-08-22 19:28       ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-08-22 19:28         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-26 10:56 ` Blaisorblade
2006-08-26 10:56   ` Blaisorblade
2006-08-28 20:35   ` Jeff Dike
2006-08-28 20:35     ` Jeff Dike
2006-08-29  8:26     ` Paolo Giarrusso
2006-08-29  8:26       ` Paolo Giarrusso

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