Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:28:14 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] arch/um/sys-i386/setjmp.S: useless #ifdef _REGPARM's?
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On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 01:42:33PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:07:41PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > I didn't find a corresponding open bug in the gcc Bugzilla.
> > 
> > Can someone verify whether it's still present, and if yes, open a gcc 
> > bug?
> 
> Yup, it's easy enough to check.

Thanks.

> > It's set globally in arch/i386/Makefile:
> >   cflags-$(CONFIG_REGPARM) += -mregparm=3
> 
> IIRC, there used to be functions explicitly declared as __regparam or
> something, and that's what I was grepping for.  Does this turn every
> function with three or fewer parameters into a regparam function?
>...

With -mregparm=3, the first up to three parameters that aren't bigger 
than an integer are passed in registers instead of on the stack.

> 				Jeff

cu
Adrian

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