Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:19:01 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: syscall macro fails upon compilation |
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Andi Kleen wrote: >> They were *always* broken for 64-bit arguments on 32-bit machines, however. > > Well syscall() doesn't support that at all (unless you split by hand) >
On i386 it just happens to work, because the calling convention is equivalent. On some other 32-bit platforms it works that way as well; on others, it fails.
To do it right you need a proper assembly stub generator.
-hpa
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