Re: basic system call question

["Joseph A. Knapka" <jknapka@earthlink.net>]

Timur Tabi wrote:
> 
> ** Reply to message from "Joseph A. Knapka" <jknapka@earthlink.net> on Tue, 15
> May 2001 12:58:46 -0600
> 
> > I just read the "Extended Asm" section of the GCC info
> > pages, but didn't find anything about "anonymous" parameters. There
> > must be some machine-dependent docs somewhere. The "i386 Dependencies"
> > section of the "gas" info was not helpful either :-(
> 
> Anonymous parameters are news to me, also, and I consider myself an inline asm
> wizard.  However, the asm code clearly shows the correct value going into eax:
> 
> .LM155:
>         movl $120,%eax
> 
> __NR_clone is defined as 120, so this code is correct.

I assume you mean this is what the code looks like after it's
been through gcc...

BTW, this isn't 2.4.3 specific -- the exact same code
is in my 2.4.0 tree.

Thanks,

-- Joe

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