[PATCH] trivial doc fix: remove weird phrase "syscall takes zero to five arguments"

[PATCH] trivial doc fix: remove weird phrase "syscall takes zero to five arguments"

[Askar Safin]

"number of arguments, from zero to five" is wrong, because on Linux maximal number
of arguments is 6, not 5. Also, maximal number of arguments is kernel-dependent,
so let's not include it here at all.

Moreover, "Each kind of system call has a definite number of arguments" is questionable.
Think about SYS_open on Linux, which takes 2 or 3 arguments. Or SYS_clone on Linux x86_64, which
takes 2 to 5 arguments. So I propose to fully remove this sentence.

Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@zohomail.com>
---

Again: yes, I give up pushing my "syscall_no_errno".
But while I was writing "syscall_no_errno" patch I noticed this manual error,
so I submit it.

 manual/startup.texi | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/manual/startup.texi b/manual/startup.texi
index 9bf24123f5..96a7a472bb 100644
--- a/manual/startup.texi
+++ b/manual/startup.texi
@@ -727,8 +727,7 @@ identified by a number.  Macros for all the possible system call numbers
 are defined in @file{sys/syscall.h}
 
 The remaining arguments are the arguments for the system call, in
-order, and their meanings depend on the kind of system call.  Each kind
-of system call has a definite number of arguments, from zero to five.
+order, and their meanings depend on the kind of system call.
 If you code more arguments than the system call takes, the extra ones to
 the right are ignored.
 
-- 
2.43.0

Re: [PATCH] trivial doc fix: remove weird phrase "syscall takes zero to five arguments"

[Adhemerval Zanella Netto]

On 12/02/24 13:48, Askar Safin wrote:
> "number of arguments, from zero to five" is wrong, because on Linux maximal number
> of arguments is 6, not 5. Also, maximal number of arguments is kernel-dependent,
> so let's not include it here at all.

mips o32 supports 7 arguments, but I think this is the only supported
kABI that allows it (csky also have INTERNAL_SYSCALL_RAW7, but I am
not sure it really uses this macro for any syscall).

> 
> Moreover, "Each kind of system call has a definite number of arguments" is questionable.
> Think about SYS_open on Linux, which takes 2 or 3 arguments. Or SYS_clone on Linux x86_64, which
> takes 2 to 5 arguments. So I propose to fully remove this sentence.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@zohomail.com>

LGTM, thanks.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>

> ---
> 
> Again: yes, I give up pushing my "syscall_no_errno".
> But while I was writing "syscall_no_errno" patch I noticed this manual error,
> so I submit it.
> 
>  manual/startup.texi | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/manual/startup.texi b/manual/startup.texi
> index 9bf24123f5..96a7a472bb 100644
> --- a/manual/startup.texi
> +++ b/manual/startup.texi
> @@ -727,8 +727,7 @@ identified by a number.  Macros for all the possible system call numbers
>  are defined in @file{sys/syscall.h}
>  
>  The remaining arguments are the arguments for the system call, in
> -order, and their meanings depend on the kind of system call.  Each kind
> -of system call has a definite number of arguments, from zero to five.
> +order, and their meanings depend on the kind of system call.
>  If you code more arguments than the system call takes, the extra ones to
>  the right are ignored.
>