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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.

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				Brian Gerst