Fix MIPS waitid build [committed]
Joseph Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
Wed Dec 10 21:28:00 GMT 2014
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Rich Felker wrote:
> Wouldn't it be preferable just to fix whatever the underlying cause
> is? It sounds like some ugly and fragile hack is being used to
> position the syscall arguments on the stack and I wouldn't be
> surprised if it's only working by chance. I've seen other bad code
A single asm adjusts the stack, puts arguments there, does the syscall and
restores the stack. The frame pointer is needed to avoid the stack
pointer adjustment breaking unwind info.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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