Re: Gnumach: locore.S copyin vs. copyinmsg

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 16:07 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Barry deFreese, le Fri 10 Nov 2006 09:58:20 -0500, a écrit :
> > From my extremely limited knowledge of assembler, copyin and          
> > copyinmsg look to be exactly the same.                                
> 
> They are not the same when using gprof: see asm.h, in that case ENTRY
> does a bit more stuff.
> 
> Moreover, when looking at the calls to copyin, copyinmsg, copyout and
> copyoutmsg, it looks like the prototypes should respectively be
> 
> int copyin(const void *from, void *to, size_t size);
> int copyinmsg(vm_offset_t from, vm_offset_t to, size_t size);
> int copyout(const void *from, void *to, size_t size);
> int copyoutmsg(vm_offset_t from, vm_offset_t to, size_t size);
> 
> May somebody more experienced with these functions confirm this?

Yes Samuel, you are correct here, AFAICT and R.

Thomas

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