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Re: Please help get me started...

To: David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>
Subject: Re: Please help get me started...
From: Philip Blundell <philb at gnu dot org>
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 19:00:47 +0100
cc: 'Robert Lewko' <rob at wirelessnetworksinc dot com>, crossgcc at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <718D38CAB6E0D011B2C90060970C28A5642831@exchangeserver.pixelpower.com>

>  Sorry, I haven't been clear here.  What matters is the calling convention
>used to make syscalls into the OS, and the frame layout and argument
>passing behaviour that it expects.  If these match standard linux

The only bit of gcc that cares about system call conventions is the 
divide-by-zero trap.  You can probably afford to gloss over that in the early 
stages of a port.  All the mechanics of system calls happens in libc.

p.



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