Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:37:03 +0100 (MET) | | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Make _syscallX() macros compile in PIC mode on i386 |
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>> Gcc reserves %ebx when compiling position-independent-code on i386. This >> means, the _syscallX() macros in include/asm-i386/unistd.h will not >> compile. This patch is against 2.6.15.6 and adds a new set of macros >> which will be used in PIC mode. These macros take special care to >> preserve %ebx. > >But we don't compile the kernel with -fpic... We might want to, for kdump >convenience at some stage, perhaps. > UML. Maybe it does not build with -fpic/-fPIC either, but it's one case where it's more likely than with a "true" kernel.
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