From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
Glibc hackers <libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Kill some duplication between 64-bit linux arches
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200403231932.i2NJW0RF005594@magilla.sf.frob.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Ulrich Drepper's message of Tuesday, 23 March 2004 10:52:35 -0800 <40608773.4070401@redhat.com>
> This patch is not valid under current assumptions. INLINE_SYSCALL is a
> Linux-ism. It cannot be used in sysdeps/wordsize-64 which is a generic
> directory. The problem is that what is a syscall on Linux need not
> necessarily by a syscall equivalent on other OSes. Hurd, for instance,
> has read() as a normal function in libc IIRC.
Correct.
> Maybe creating sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64, moving the new files
> there, and requiring that directory for all 64-bit archs on Linux will work.
If these are useful e.g. for the GNU/*BSD ports, then there could be a
purpose-specific directory such as sysdeps/unix/inline-syscall/wordsize-64.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-23 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-23 19:32 Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-23 19:38 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-23 19:43 ` Roland McGrath [this message]
2004-03-23 20:37 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-23 23:58 ` Roland McGrath
2004-03-24 0:04 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-24 12:00 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-24 15:25 ` Ulrich Drepper
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