On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:11:02AM +0200, chgans@tuxfamily.org wrote: > But how does the compiler know that this call is to be done with "asmlinkage" > (regparm(...)) technique? This is a good question, that I've struggled with in the past. I don't have a definitive answer, but I can tell you two things: 1. Declaring the function pointer as asmlinkage causes some gcc versions to croak. 2. The compiler empirically always does the right thing. This *might* be because passing parameters in registers is an optimization, and the compiler will not optimize function calls through a function pointer. If you find a definitive answer, I'd like to know. Thanks, muli. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org http://www.livejournal.com/~mulix/
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