From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:12:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:12:02 -0500 Received: from saturn.cs.uml.edu ([129.63.8.2]:14084 "EHLO saturn.cs.uml.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:11:49 -0500 From: "Albert D. Cahalan" Message-Id: <200011110011.eAB0BbF244111@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Subject: Re: Where is it written? To: meissner@spectacle-pond.org (Michael Meissner) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:11:37 -0500 (EST) Cc: george@mvista.com (George Anzinger), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (linux-kernel@vger.redhat.com) In-Reply-To: <20001110184031.A2704@munchkin.spectacle-pond.org> from "Michael Meissner" at Nov 10, 2000 06:40:31 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Meissner writes: > It may be out of print by now, but the original reference > for the x86 ABI, is the: > > System V Application Binary Interface > Intel386 (tm) Processor Supplement > > When Cygnus purchased the manual I have, many moons ago, > it was published by AT&T, with a copyright date of 1991, Gee that looks old. Might there be better calling conventions for the Pentium 4 or Athlon? Memory latency, vector registers, and more direct access to floating-point registers may mean we ought to change the calling conventions. One would start with the kernel of course, because it stands alone. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/