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From: cinap_lenrek@felloff.net
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9syscall
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:34:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b4c21e3aa0b13cd88427a6cbd0d8537@felloff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5f8bf2c82754e77f461459bf3e4151df@brasstown.quanstro.net>

because the kernel assumes that returned vlong is passed
by reference in the first argument, where on amd64, the
(amd64) calling convention returns it in 64 bit AX register.

so seek() is a library func that emulates the previous convention
for _seek() syscall.

--
cinap



  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-12 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-12 13:17 erik quanstrom
2014-06-12 13:34 ` cinap_lenrek [this message]
2014-06-12 13:41   ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-12 14:11     ` cinap_lenrek
2014-06-12 14:18       ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-12 14:30     ` cinap_lenrek
2014-06-12 14:51       ` erik quanstrom

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