Re: Lmbench results for Linux/MIPS 2.1.90

[Dominic Sweetman <dom@algor.co.uk>]

ralf@uni-koblenz.de (ralf@uni-koblenz.de) writes:

> I'm thinking about changing the calling sequence of syscalls as well.
> When we get more than four arguments passed, we have to dig them out of
> the userstack.

Someone else mentioned n32/64; these new SGI standards pass up to 8
arguments in registers.

Making syscalls different from all other function calls would be kind
of a kludge.

Dominic Sweetman
dom@algor.co.uk