{ This file is part of the Free Pascal run time library. Copyright (c) 2005-2009 by Michael Van Canneyt and David Zhang See the file COPYING.FPC, included in this distribution, for details about the copyright. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. **********************************************************************} {$ifndef generic_linux_syscalls} {$define FPC_BASEUNIX_HAS_FPPIPE} Function fppipe(var fildes : tfildes):cint;assembler; { This function puts the registers in place, does the call, and then copies back the registers as they are after the SysCall. Extracted from linux/source/arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c: * For historic reasons the pipe(2) syscall on MIPS has an unusual calling * convention. It returns results in registers $v0 / $v1 which means there * is no need for it to do verify the validity of a userspace pointer * argument. Historically that used to be expensive in Linux. These days * the performance advantage is negligible. } var tmp: pointer; asm sw $a0,tmp { if $a0 is preserved in syscall then this is not needed } li $v0,syscall_nr_pipe syscall nop beq $a3,$0,.L1 nop move $a0,$v0 jal fpseterrno nop b .L2 li $v0,-1 { in delay slot } .L1: { the two files descriptors are now in v0 and v1 registers copying them back into fildes variable } lw $t1,tmp sw $v0,($t1) sw $v1,4($t1) .L2: end; {$endif generic_linux_syscalls}