Hi,
I hope I’m right here, I wasn’t sure whether Bugzilla is also for
feature requests.
syscall(2) on my Debian systems has these wonderful tables for the
calling conventions on all kinds of CPU architectures. I often have
to debug various things in various libcs on various platforms for
various bugs ☺ and would love it if this information could somehow
be extended by the relevant userspace calling conventions (so I can
read “foreign”, i.e. not i8086/i386 Intel, assembly more easily,
figure out the bugs in their {,sig}{set,long}jmp implementations,
write patches without extra digging, etc.
I’m aware that linux-man is probably more kernel-oriented and
conventions can differ by libcs (e.g. I’ve seen libcs that use
a regparm convention on i386), but the “standard” case should
be sufficiently on topic (especially as I think the vDSO would
also use these conventions).
Things like, what arguments go into which registers, which are
saved by who, etc.
Thanks in advance,
//mirabilos
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