Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264539AbUBAAsa (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2004 19:48:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264855AbUBAAsa (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2004 19:48:30 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:64666 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264539AbUBAAs3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2004 19:48:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16412.19232.539839.794917@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 11:41:04 +1100 From: Paul Mackerras To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: klibc list , linux-kernel Subject: Re: long long on 32-bit machines In-Reply-To: <401B464C.50004@zytor.com> References: <4017F991.2090604@zytor.com> <16408.59474.427408.682002@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <401B464C.50004@zytor.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 557 Lines: 15 H. Peter Anvin writes: > Does system calls follow the same convention? Yes. A system call with a long long argument will be handled by a C routine in the kernel. The system call arguments in r3 - r8 are unchanged by the system call exception entry code and end up being the arguments to the C routine. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/