Re: add epoll implementation to libwine_port (take 3)

[Chris Dodd]

Mike McCormack <mike(a)codeweavers.com> wrote in 
news:4174D681.9050503(a)codeweavers.com:
> A few more changes after consulting with Alexandre.
>
> ChangeLog:
> * add epoll implementation to libwine_port
>    :
> +    __asm__ __volatile__( "pushl %%ebx; movl %2,%%ebx; int $0x80; popl
> %%ebx" +                          : "=a" (ret) : "0"
>    :

A random question here from someone who is not too familiar with wine
internals -- why are you using inline asm code instead of syscall(2)?
It seems like syscall would be both simpler and more portable.

Chris Dodd
cdodd(a)acm.org