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Re: [PATCH] Complete PPC INLINE_SYSCALL macro

From: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
To: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>,Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>,Steven Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 11:38:35 +0200
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Complete PPC INLINE_SYSCALL macro
References: <200209242245.51145@enzo.bigblue.local> <200209242342.50698@enzo.bigblue.local> <20020926225626.A22656@twiddle.net>

On Friday 27 September 2002 07:56, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 11:42:50PM +0200, Franz Sirl wrote:
> > Huh? has this changed post-3.2? Or hasn't the documentation been updated?
>
> The documentation has been updated.  It didn't really "change"
> per-se post-3.2, in that the following wasn't reliable.  We now
> generate a diagnostic.

OK, so here is a corrected patch. Note that this patch necessary to run 2.3 on 
2.5.x kernels, cause 2.5.x already optimizes the syscall register usage.

The PPC64 version needs a similar change, cause I think the PPC64 kernel 
people plan a similar optimization.

Franz.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h (INLINE_SYSCALL):
	Add missing bits.

Attachment: glibc-ppc-inline_syscall-2.patch
Description: Text document

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