Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch

[Chuck Silvers <chuq%chuq.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 08:34:38AM -0500, Michael wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Nov 2014 00:05:06 +0000
> "Chuck Silvers" <chs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > Module Name:	src
> > Committed By:	chs
> > Date:		Sun Nov  9 00:05:06 UTC 2014
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> > 	src/sys/arch/macppc/macppc: locore.S
> > 	src/sys/arch/ofppc/ofppc: locore.S
> > 
> > Log Message:
> > in the initial asm code, save the interesting caller-saved registers
> > (containing "arg" and "len") across function calls to C code.
> > fixes kernels built with gcc 4.8.
> 
> I wonder if that helps with clang builds as well.

it very well could, clang might be using some of the same registers as the newer gcc.
I haven't tried it though.

-Chuck