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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: Syscall with 7 args...
From:       "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct () redhat ! com>
Date:       1999-09-30 15:06:38
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Hi,

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:30:11 +0200, <Fabian.Frederick@prov-liege.be>
said:

> In fact I need some _syscall7 declaration and dunno
> which operand to use as maximum declared is s4  : /

There aren't enough Intel registers to pass 7 arguments through a
syscall.  Write a library stub routine which stores the args in a struct
on the stack and passes the address of that struct through to the
syscall.  

--Stephen

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