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Hi Zhangjin, 

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 07:02:55PM +0800, Zhangjin Wu wrote:
> Btw, have checked "=r" instead of "=a" works on i386 too for we already
> bind the _ret variable with "RET" register, but still need to check if
> "=a" is necessary?

I need to tell you that syscall6() for i386 can't use "r" and "=r"
because there was a historical bug that made GCC stuck in a loop forever
when compiling the nolibc code. It's already fixed in the latest version
of GCC, but we should still support older compilers.

Ref: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105032

I discovered that bug in 2022 in the latest version of GCC at that time,
so it's pretty new, and those buggy versions are very likely still in
the wild today.

-- 
Ammar Faizi