>>>>> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:16:25 +0200, Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> said: >> Does anybody know why __BUILD_clear_ade uses MFC0 and REG_S >> though other parts using mfc0 and sw ? Thiemo> Probably because BADVADDR has to be 64bit for 64bit Thiemo> kernels. :-) If so, MFC0 and REG_S should be controlled by __mips64 (or CONFIG_MIPS64) as you and Maciej W. Rozycki said in other mails. I wonder why currently is not. Historical reason ? :-) Now I'm looking 2.6 codes and there is same problem. But 2.6 codes does not use REG_S at all so the stack corruption will never happen. FYI. --- Atsushi Nemoto