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Re: [PATCH]: Fix syscall() on sparc.

From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
To: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
Cc: drow at false dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, jakub at redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 14:46:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Fix syscall() on sparc.
References: <20080501.022302.82249313.davem@davemloft.net><20080501141738.GA12634@caradoc.them.org><20080501.143151.21303129.davem@davemloft.net>

> > > +	ldx	[%sp+2223],%o5
> > 
> > That seems like a really unlikely stack frame size :-)
> 
> The stack is biased by 2047 bytes on sparc64, so that more local
> variables are accessible from the frame pointer.

You don't stay sane by writing it as [%sp + 2047 - 176]?
(Or even some macro or built-in assembler shorthand for same.)

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