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From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	libc-ports@sourceware.org,        libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PI mutex support for pthread_cond_* now in nptl
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130219172212.GC25897@spoyarek.pnq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1302191714120.8011@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 05:18:20PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> There are however two different groups of those headers, those where e.g. 
> lll_futex_timed_wait ends with
> 
>   INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERROR_P (__ret, __err) ? -__ret : __ret;
> 
> (e.g. powerpc) and those (e.g. s390) where it just ends with a call to 
> INTERNAL_SYSCALL and relies on the return value of INTERNAL_SYSCALL being 
> the correct return from the macro.  I'm not sure whether those differences 
> actually serve a useful purpose or whether the return value of 
> INTERNAL_SYSCALL differs in a relevant way between architectures.

From the very superficial analysis I had done last year, it should be
possible to consolidate all that.

Siddhesh

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-19 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-18 10:56 Siddhesh Poyarekar
2013-02-18 23:50 ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-19  0:50   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-19 16:42 ` Richard Henderson
2013-02-19 16:49   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2013-02-19 17:18   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-19 17:21     ` Siddhesh Poyarekar [this message]
2013-02-19 20:06     ` Torvald Riegel
2013-02-20 18:13       ` Steven Munroe
2013-02-20 20:25         ` Torvald Riegel
2013-02-20 22:04           ` Roland McGrath
2013-02-20 22:41           ` Steven Munroe
2013-02-21  4:32           ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
     [not found]     ` <1361304381.581.80.camel__6928.53579898856$1361304432$gmane$org@triegel.csb>
2013-02-22  4:11       ` Andi Kleen
     [not found] ` <5123AB55.2070100__45742.2411222526$1361292204$gmane$org@twiddle.net>
2013-02-19 17:01   ` Andreas Schwab
2013-02-19 17:18     ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2013-02-19 17:39       ` Andreas Schwab
2013-02-19 17:52         ` Siddhesh Poyarekar

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