> 
> Ah, the patch was backwards ('diff -u new old ' instead of 'diff -u old
> new').
> 
> OK, your:
> 
> popl %ecx
> movl %ecx, (%eax)
> 
> is semantically exactly same as the current
> 
> popl (%eax)
> 
> and the latter one saves one insn. Since the code is this
> way for some three years, it got to be fine ;) Do you have
> any actual problem with errno setting after any system call?
> 

You are right !! I have been all along thinking that the pop was to %eax. It
was a little tricky.

Thanks a lot for clarification

Regards,
Srini.



> Jaromir
> -- 
> Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>            http://www.NetBSD.cz/
> -=- We should be mindful of the potential goal, but as the Buddhist -=-
> -=- masters say, ``You may notice during meditation that you        -=-
> -=- sometimes levitate or glow.   Do not let this distract you.''   -=-


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