Re: calling convention for merging asm&C

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Glynn Clements wrote:

>whether regparm(1) would ever provide a non-negligible performance
>increase in a real-world application.

I am recompiling the kernel with -mregparm=1. It crashes in
check_partition() (in genhd.c). Once I' ll have fixed the bug (maybe in
the compiler ;-) I' ll make some performance test... 

Andrea[s] Arcangeli