Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Sep 2002 14:51:44 -0400 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: Syscall changes registers beyond %eax, on linux-i386 |
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Richard Henderson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 02:04:43PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > >>Now that I've thought about it more, I think the best solution is to go >>through all the syscalls (a big job, I know), and declare the parameters >>as const, so that gcc knows it can't modify them, and will throw a >>warning if we try. > > > The parameter area belongs to the callee, and it may *always* be modified. > > > r~ >
The parameters can not be modified if they are declared const though, that's my point.
-- Brian Gerst
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