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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:29:35 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cs9v6f$3tj$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.61.0501141613500.6747@chaos.analogic.com

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501141613500.6747@chaos.analogic.com>
By author:    linux-os <linux-os@analogic.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > Actually -mregparm=0 is not supposed to be even accepted by x86-64
> > compiler (I've disabled the function attribute but apparently missed
> > this one) and even if GCC produced valid code by miracle, you will get
> > into trouble with hand written assembly.
> 
> Huh? That's the default for a 'C' compiler (not to pass parameters
> in registers). The parameters are passed on the stack as the default!
> The return values don't count. They are, by default passed in eax
> or edx-eax pair for a long long.
> 

Dear Wrongbot,

It depends on the architecture ABI.  This is the case for the i386
ABI, but definitely *NOT* for x86-64.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-15  2:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-14 16:34 booting a kernel compiled with -mregparm=0 Tigran Aivazian
2005-01-14 20:56 ` [discuss] " Jan Hubicka
2005-01-14 21:28   ` linux-os
2005-01-15  2:29     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-01-17  9:30       ` Tigran Aivazian
2005-01-17  9:53         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-17 10:04           ` Tigran Aivazian
2005-01-17 18:10             ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-17 20:22               ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-17 20:38                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-17 22:08                   ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-18 11:25                   ` Tigran Aivazian
2005-01-18 11:51                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-18 13:04                     ` Tigran Aivazian
2005-01-18 13:16                       ` Tigran Aivazian
2005-01-17 10:59         ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-17 13:17           ` Tigran Aivazian
2005-01-17 16:38         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-18 20:38         ` Keith Owens
2005-01-18 23:15           ` Andi Kleen

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