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Re: [PATCH] Fix LO_HI_LONG definition
On 05/07/2016 10:18, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 07/04/2016 07:08 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>> The p{read,write}v{64} consolidation patch [1] added a wrong guard
>> for LO_HI_LONG definition. It currently uses both
>> '__WORDSIZE == 64' and 'defined __ASSUME_WORDSIZE64_ILP32' to set
>> the value to be passed in one argument, otherwise it will be split
>> in two.
>>
>> However it fails on MIPS64n32 where syscalls n32 uses the compat
>> implementation in the kernel meaning the off_t arguments are passed
>> in two separate registers.
>
> Was this bug caught by the glibc test suite on the affected architecture?
Yes, Joseph reported it [1].
[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-07/msg00051.html