Re: [ros-dev] About @KfLowerIrql@4

[art yerkes]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:57:46 -0800 (PST)
Fan Zhang <fanzier(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>   hi, i'm a newbie of ReacOS.
>  I looked a piece of code in syscall.S which is come from 0.2.7 edtion.
>  
>      /* Raise IRQL to APC_LEVEL */
>      movl $1, %ecx
>      call @KfRaiseIrql@4
>  
>  could anybody help me explain why the function is decorated by @ in the head?
>  and why transfer argument by ecx? 
Leading @ is for fastcall convention, which passes arguments in registers.
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art yerkes <ayerkes(a)speakeasy.net>