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Re: [PATCH 2/6] Use INLINE_SYSCALL_ERROR_RETURN
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:58:11 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] Use INLINE_SYSCALL_ERROR_RETURN
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On 10/13/2015 03:56 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> It looks (ptrdiff_t) isn't needed.
It's not needed on x86_64, but we don't know if there will be
architectures which will eventually need it (or already do). The
existing code had -1L, so I assumed it was better to play it safe and
mirror that.
Florian