Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove all definitions with fastcall

• To: Phillip Susi <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove all definitions with fastcall
• From: Harvey Harrison <[email protected]>
• Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:31:42 -0800
• Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>, "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>, LKML <[email protected]>, Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 16:27 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > fastcall is always defined to be empty, remove it from arch/x86
> 
> Why is it always defined to be empty?  Why isn't it used anymore?
> 

It was a leftover from before regparm(3) became the default on x86-32.

It doesn't have any use now.

Harvey

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