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Re: PATCH: Re: Inefficient ia64 system call implementation in glibc
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:36:21AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:21:23PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 12:39:18PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> >> > Can I get char * from char [300]?
> >>
> >> x+0 would work in this case; I'd guess it'd work for most of the
> >> cases that syscalls need to handle.
> >>
> >
> > This patch works for me.
> >
> >
> > H.J.
> > ---
> > 2003-09-22 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
> >
> > * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/sysdep.h (LOAD_ARGS_1): Use
> > __typeof ((outX) + 0) instead of long.
>
> Hopefully we don't have any occurences of LOAD_ARGS_n(...,0,..) where the
> kernel expects long.
>
I don't think it will be the problem. Compiler will do
addl outN = constant, r0
to pass a constant to the function, regardless what the type is. Am I
correct?
H.J.