On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 00:53, Kiran Kumar wrote: > The assembly equivalent of this code is > enlightening. 64 bit values are returned through the > %eax and %edx registers rather than through %eax > alone. Relevant portions are attached.. Of course they are :) The registers are only 32-bit, after all. The x86 ABI defines the mechanism for returning extended types. In such situations, you either have to do a memcpy or (preferably) snag an extra register. Robert Love -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
