Subject: Re: m88k system call convention
To: None <netbsd-ports@netbsd.org, nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
List: netbsd-ports
Date: 02/09/2000 15:36:02 
> What system calls use that many registers or have that many arguments?

Aha.  I think I've got the reason why syscall number in r9 is not
optimal for OpenBSD/m88k.  The largest storage consuming system call
is mmap, which would occupy eight 32bit registers and r9 should be
free for it.  The change was neccessiated by off_t change, I guess.

Tohru Nishimura