[parisc-linux] HPUX syscall ABI?

[LaMont Jones]

> Yep, that's exactly what I need.  Urgh, so I have to grab the arguments
> off the user-mode stack before switching to the kernel-mode stack..
> 
> What's the greatest number of parameters to an HPUX syscall?
> Linux's mmap() has six parameters (and you should see the kludges some
> architectures go through to support that.  We're cleaner).

The routine _syscall(), which calls an aribitrary system call for you,
takes 9 arguments:  the system call number followed by 8 args.  While
that's not a complete guarantee, you'ld be in good company if you supported
up to 8 args...

lamont