[help] _syscall2 fails with -fPIC

Mark Swanson (swansma@yahoo.com)
Sat, 17 Feb 2001 11:47:09 -0800 (PST)


Hello,

I am building a -fPIC shared object that will define and access a Linux
kernel system call, but _syscall2 fails with -fPIC .so compilation.
What can I do?

F.E. the statement:

_syscall2 (int, tux, unsigned int, action, user_req_t *, req)

Gives the following gcc error when compiled with -fPIC:

tst.c: In function `tux':
tst.c:62: Invalid `asm' statement:
tst.c:62: fixed or forbidden register 3 (bx) was spilled for class
BREG.

If the -fPIC isn't there it compiles fine. Unfortunately I need to find
another way as I have to use -fPIC.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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