On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 05:50:54PM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:49:12PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > > (Btw, clang doesn't need to add that "xor %eax,%eax" - panic() should not be > > returning, ever. :-)) > > > > I think this is because panic() is varargs, and clang doesn't support > gcc's -mskip-rax-setup. The normal ABI requires the caller to set RAX to > the number of arguments in vector registers. > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/gcc/patch/20141218131150.ga32...@intel.com/
Ah, good point. Found this in the ABI doc: "For calls that may call functions that use varargs or stdargs (prototype-less calls or calls to functions containing ellipsis (...) in the declaration) %al is used as hidden argument to specify the number of vector registers used. The contents of %al do not need to match exactly the number of registers, but must be an upper bound on the number of vector registers used and is in the range 0–8 inclusive." Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette