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-rw-r--r--libc/sysdeps/linux/i386/__syscall_error.c22
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/libc/sysdeps/linux/i386/__syscall_error.c b/libc/sysdeps/linux/i386/__syscall_error.c
index de65a1f39..507cf2ab7 100644
--- a/libc/sysdeps/linux/i386/__syscall_error.c
+++ b/libc/sysdeps/linux/i386/__syscall_error.c
@@ -22,8 +22,24 @@
/* This routine is jumped to by all the syscall handlers, to stash
* an error number into errno. */
-int attribute_hidden __syscall_error(int err_no)
+
+/* This version uses a lot of magic and relies heavily on x86
+ * calling convention ... The advantage is that this is the same
+ * size as the previous __syscall_error() but all the .S functions
+ * need just one instruction.
+ *
+ * Local .S files have to set %eax to the negative errno value
+ * and then jump to this function. The neglected return to caller
+ * and return value of -1 is taken care of here so we don't have to
+ * worry about it in the .S functions.
+ *
+ * We have to stash the errno from %eax in a local stack var because
+ * __set_errno will prob call a function thus clobbering %eax on us.
+ */
+void attribute_hidden __syscall_error(void)
{
- __set_errno(err_no);
- return -1;
+ register int eax asm("%eax");
+ int stack = -eax;
+ __set_errno(stack);
+ eax = -1;
}