On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 03:38:03AM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > I'm continuing my foray into assembly language programming, and today I ran > into a problem calling mmap. The problem came from the fact that the version > I was apparently calling (libc?) was expecting an additional 'pad' argument.
What do you want to do? If you generate the complete call directly, e.g. with int $0x80, you have to be aware of the necessary padding. But that practise is not recommented, since it makes the programs much less portable. You can run into problems when a syscall is eliminated and only emulated in userland, for example. Joerg
