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+/* Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+Contributed by Ulrich Drepper, <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, August 1995.
+
+The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
+published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
+License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+Library General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
+License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
+not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,
+Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
+
+/* In the Linux/ELF world, C symbols are asm symbols. */
+#define NO_UNDERSCORES
+
+/* There is some commonality. */
+#include <sysdeps/unix/i386/sysdep.h>
+
+/* For Linux we can use the system call table in the header file
+ /usr/include/asm/unistd.h
+ of the kernel. But these symbols do not follow the SYS_* syntax
+ so we have to redefine the `SYS_ify' macro here. */
+#undef SYS_ify
+#ifdef __STDC__
+# define SYS_ify(syscall_name) __NR_##syscall_name
+#else
+# define SYS_ify(syscall_name) __NR_/**/syscall_name
+#endif
+
+
+#ifdef ASSEMBLER
+
+/* Linux uses a negative return value to indicate syscall errors, unlike
+ most Unices, which use the condition codes' carry flag. */
+#undef PSEUDO
+#define PSEUDO(name, syscall_name, args) \
+ .text; \
+ .globl syscall_error; \
+ ENTRY (name) \
+ movl $SYS_ify (syscall_name), %eax; \
+ DO_CALL (args); \
+ testl %eax, %eax; \
+ jl JUMPTARGET (syscall_error)
+
+/* We define our own ENTRY macro because the alignment should be 16 for ELF. */
+#undef ENTRY
+#define ENTRY(name) \
+ ASM_GLOBAL_DIRECTIVE C_SYMBOL_NAME (name); \
+ ASM_TYPE_DIRECTIVE (C_SYMBOL_NAME (name), @function) \
+ .align 16; \
+ C_LABEL (name)
+
+/* Linux takes system call arguments in registers:
+
+ syscall number %eax call-clobbered
+ arg 1 %ebx call-saved
+ arg 2 %ecx call-clobbered
+ arg 3 %edx call-clobbered
+ arg 4 %esi call-saved
+ arg 5 %edi call-saved
+
+ The stack layout upon entering the function is:
+
+ 20(%esp) Arg# 5
+ 16(%esp) Arg# 4
+ 12(%esp) Arg# 3
+ 8(%esp) Arg# 2
+ 4(%esp) Arg# 1
+ (%esp) Return address
+
+ (Of course a function with say 3 arguments does not have entries for
+ arguments 4 and 5.)
+
+ The following code tries hard to be optimal. A general assuption
+ (which is true accoriding to the data books I have) is that
+
+ 2 * xchg is more expensive than pushl + movl + popl
+
+ Beside this a neat trick is used. The calling conventions for Linux
+ tell that among the registers used for parameters %ecx and %edx need
+ not be saved. Beside this we may clobber this registers even when
+ they are not used for parameter passing.
+
+ As a result one can see below that we save the content of the %ebx
+ register in the %edx register when we have less than 3 arguments
+ (2 * movl is less expensive than pushl + popl).
+
+ Second unlike for the other registers we don't save the content of
+ %ecx and %edx when we have than 1 and 2 registers resp. */
+
+#undef DO_CALL
+#define DO_CALL(args) \
+ DOARGS_##args \
+ int $0x80; \
+ UNDOARGS_##args
+
+#define DOARGS_0 /* No arguments to frob. */
+#define UNDOARGS_0 /* No arguments to unfrob. */
+#define _DOARGS_0(n) /* No arguments to frob. */
+#define _UNDOARGS_0 /* No arguments to unfrob. */
+
+#define DOARGS_1 movl %ebx, %edx; movl 4(%esp), %ebx; DOARGS_0
+#define UNDOARGS_1 UNDOARGS_0; movl %edx, %ebx
+#define _DOARGS_1(n) pushl %ebx; movl n+4(%esp), %ebx; _DOARGS_0 (n)
+#define _UNDOARGS_1 _UNDOARGS_0; popl %ebx
+
+#define DOARGS_2 movl 8(%esp), %ecx; DOARGS_1
+#define UNDOARGS_2 UNDOARGS_1
+#define _DOARGS_2(n) movl n(%esp), %ecx; _DOARGS_1 (n-4)
+#define _UNDOARGS_2 _UNDOARGS_1
+
+#define DOARGS_3 _DOARGS_3 (12)
+#define UNDOARGS_3 _UNDOARGS_3
+#define _DOARGS_3(n) movl n(%esp), %edx; _DOARGS_2 (n-4)
+#define _UNDOARGS_3 _UNDOARGS_2
+
+#define DOARGS_4 _DOARGS_4 (16)
+#define UNDOARGS_4 _UNDOARGS_4
+#define _DOARGS_4(n) pushl %esi; movl n+4(%esp), %esi; _DOARGS_3 (n)
+#define _UNDOARGS_4 _UNDOARGS_3; popl %esi
+
+#define DOARGS_5 _DOARGS_5 (20)
+#define UNDOARGS_5 _UNDOARGS_5
+#define _DOARGS_5(n) pushl %edi; movl n+4(%esp), %edi; _DOARGS_4 (n)
+#define _UNDOARGS_5 _UNDOARGS_4; popl %edi
+
+
+#endif /* ASSEMBLER */