On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 11:28:11AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> The amd64 stub for syscall() is:
> 
> ENTRY(syscall)
> 	movl	%edi,%eax
> 	syscall
> 
> (from libc/arch/x86_64/sys/syscall.S)
> 
> This looks completely wrong to me.
> I think it needs to be:
> 	mov	$0,%eax
> 	mov	%rcx,%r10
> 	syscall
> 
> probably generated by RSYSCALL(syscall)

Certainly the current libc code doesn't DTRT:
	syscall(6, 10);
generates close(6) not close(10)

	David

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