Re: long long on 32-bit machines

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> 
>>Some architectures require long long arguments to be passed as an
>>even/odd register pair. For example on s390, 
>>
>>  void f(int a, int b, long long x) 
>>
>>uses registers 2, 3, 4 and 5, while 
>>
>>  void f(int a, long long x, int b)
>>
>>uses registers 2, 4, 5 and 6.
> 
> 
> Actually, this isn't quite true -- the second case will also
> use registers 2, 3, 4, and 5.
> 
> However, there is still a case where a single long long is
> passed differently from a pair of longs: when there is only
> a single register remaining for parameters.
> 
> This means that
>   void f(int a, int b, int c, int d, long e, long f)
> is passed as
>   a-d in register 2-5
>   e in register 6
>   f on the stack (4 bytes)
> 
> while
>   void f(int a, int b, int c, int d, long long e)
> is passed as
>   a-d in register 2-5
>   nothing in register 6
>   e on the stack (8 bytes)
>  

If I remember correctly, a 6-argument system call on s390 will put a
pointer to the last two arguments as the effective 5th argument, so this
would not affect the system call calling convention, correct?

	-hpa