From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: klibc list <klibc@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: long long on 32-bit machines
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:08:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <401B464C.50004@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16408.59474.427408.682002@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Paul Mackerras wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin writes:
>
>
>>Does anyone happen to know if there are *any* 32-bit architectures (on
>>which Linux runs) for which the ABI for a "long long" is different from
>>passing two "longs" in the appropriate order, i.e. (hi,lo) for bigendian
>>or (lo,hi) for littleendian?
>
>
> Are you are talking about passing arguments to a function? PPC32
> passes long long arguments in two registers in the order you would
> expect (hi, lo), BUT you have to use an odd/even register pair. In
> other words, if you have a function like this:
>
> int foo(int a, long long b)
>
> then a will be passed in r3 and b will be passed in r5 and r6, and r4
> will be unused.
>
Does system calls follow the same convention?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-31 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-28 18:04 long long on 32-bit machines H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-28 19:12 ` Timothy Miller
2004-01-28 19:15 ` David S. Miller
2004-01-29 11:02 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-01-31 6:08 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-01-31 12:23 ` [klibc] " Arnd Bergmann
2004-01-31 19:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-01 0:41 ` Paul Mackerras
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-28 19:22 Arnd Bergmann
2004-01-28 20:25 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-28 20:51 Ulrich Weigand
2004-01-29 1:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-29 9:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
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