On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 06:21:54PM +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > I thought that all C programs normally use the stack for function calls. > That's why in most languages if you are stuck in an infinite recursion you > get a "Stack Overflow Error". Not really, depends on the calling convention used. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions#System_V_AMD64_ABI first six parameters are passed using registers. For system calls it is similar: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscall.2.html -- Valentin _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
