Re: uml and -regparm=3

linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2008-01-09T22:03:18Z

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> FASTCALL is defined empty in -mm, but UML is not compiled with
> -mregparm=3 and so this breaks things (I noticed problems with
> rwsem_down_write_failed).
>
> Tried recompiling UML with -mregparm=3, but that resulted in a strange
> failure immediately after startup:
>
> |^[%Gÿÿÿÿÿÿ^[%@: Invalid argument
>
> What's up?
>
> Miklos
> --

UML gets linked with the 'C' runtime library. It doesn't
pass parameters in registers unless you get the source and
recompile the whole thing --and then you would have to
recompile all your applications, too. Yikes!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.22.1 on an i686 machine (5588.29 BogoMips).
My book : http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/
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