Re: sparc vs. gcc 4.3

[David Miller]

From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:41:11 -0800

> Could you hide the asm inside an actual function and annotate the
> function with __used?

Won't work, the asm needs to be inlined because it needs to:

1) Know where local variables are located

2) Has to run in the context of the stack frame the
   call site runs in so that the tail-call it's doing works

And actually all of this is why the sparc64 fix turned out to
be so invasive, and I'll need to do the same for sparc32
as a result.
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