On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 01:34 +0200, grundig wrote: > El Thu, 4 May 2006 11:50:17 +0530, > "Manjunath Naik" <peter.desouzain@xxxxxxxxx> escribió: > > > regparm (number) > > > > On the Intel 386, the regparm attribute causes the compiler to pass > > arguments number one to number if they are of integral type in registers > > EAX, EDX, and ECX instead of on the stack. Functions that take a variable > > number of arguments will continue to be passed all of their arguments on the > > stack. > > > Speaking of which, is this supported for x86-64? I'm curious; since x86-64 > has more registers this is the default on x86-64 already even for userspace (while on x86-32 it's only default for the kernel no) -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
