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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:53:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>
Subject:   PERFORCE change 29752 for review
Message-ID:  <200304260053.h3Q0rP6i095851@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Change 29752 by peter@peter_daintree on 2003/04/25 17:52:59

	Use the 'syscall' instruction for syscalls.  Unfortunately,
	syscall clobbers %rcx, which is one of the syscall arguments
	according to the ABI.  I had a look to see what NetBSD did and
	they use %r10 instead.  Do the same here.

Affected files ...

.. //depot/projects/hammer/lib/libc/x86_64/SYS.h#4 edit

Differences ...

==== //depot/projects/hammer/lib/libc/x86_64/SYS.h#4 (text+ko) ====

@@ -55,4 +55,4 @@
 			.set CNAME(__CONCAT(_,x)),CNAME(__CONCAT(__sys_,x)); \
 			mov __CONCAT($SYS_,x),%rax; KERNCALL; ret
 
-#define KERNCALL	int $0x80
+#define KERNCALL	movq %rcx, %r10; syscall



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