From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 27 0:10:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 766FE37B405; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 00:10:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.134.96.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.134.96]) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f7R7A4p26025; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 00:10:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B89F276.578CEFE1@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 00:10:46 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: Valentin Nechayev , Steve Roome , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: function calls/rets in assembly References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > > Well, now you should add wanted options to /etc/make.conf and avoid > > seeing of such nightmares. > > Erm, the original topic of this dicussion was about attempting to use the > assembly from the C compiler to see how things work when writing one's own > assembly functions. Having to know magical extra parameters to pass to the > compiler to make this a fruitful exercise doesn't help. If the compiler were > more intelligent about the code it output by default in the first place, then > that would help. Should we all start chanting now? Sign extend to int! Sign extend to int! K&R were right! K&R were right! Sign extend to int! 8^P -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message