Bill, William Bland <wjb@abstractnonsense.com> [2003-06-25 19:48]: > I wish to call a kernel function (may be actually in the > kernel, or may be in a module) through a function pointer. > once the module has been loaded, there is no real difference for this issue AFAIK. > I would think that, when you call a function using a function pointer, gcc > will assume that all arguments get passed on the stack (asmlinkage) since > it can't know anything about the function's actual linkage. > Have you checked what asmlinkage does? IIRC this is defined in include/linux/linkage.h. > So, I need a way to find out (at run-time), for a given function, whether > it was compiled with asmlinkage so that I will know I can safely call it > in this way. > I do not get the point here. wbr, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf | Wanna know anything about raw | <http://www.lpr.ch> | IP? <http://www.rawip.org> | -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
