[parisc-linux] Re: uaccess ya patch

Randolph Chung Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:22:13 -0800


> It was much more to mentionned that in asm extension of gcc for hppa it exists
> also a way to address the second word (what I tried to find for a long) of
> a long long via the 'R' prefix as here in '%R2' [is it what you want to say
> 'will cause bad things'?]

maybe you are thinking of floating point registers? %r2 is general
register number 2, i.e. the return pointer.  it is not what you want to
store into memory.

> (the macro was just beacuse the original __put_?_asm() was macro :) )

well, it was an inline function for a reason -- to avoid nasty casts.
the macro as you've defined it will probably cause a lot of warnings.

randolph