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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: system.h asm fixes
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 02:52:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020618025204.A28165@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020617223650.GD20335@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>; from ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de on Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:36:50AM +0200

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:36:50AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:

> Ralf Baechle wrote:
> [snip]
> > > Looks to me like we're missing some proper asm clobber markers:
> > 
> > No, as per convention $1 is never used by the compiler per convention,
> > so clobbering not necessary.  I recently removed all "$1" clobbers to
> > make the code a bit easier to read.
> 
> How can this work? A grep shows many instances of $1 usage,

Uses by assembler code only, not gcc.  Therefoe we don't need to protect
C code against use of $at.

> I don't think all of this code is interrupt safe.

How this should relate to interrupts is beyond me.  Exception handlers do
their own register saving thing.

  Ralf

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-18  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-17 18:20 system.h asm fixes Justin Carlson
2002-06-17 19:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-17 19:58   ` Thiemo Seufer
2002-06-17 20:44 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-06-17 22:36   ` Thiemo Seufer
2002-06-17 22:57     ` Justin Carlson
2002-06-18  0:52     ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2002-06-19 17:16       ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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