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Re: [PATCH] [BZ #19363] Use INTERNAL_SYSCALL_TIMES for Linux times

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:00:01 -0500
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [BZ #19363] Use INTERNAL_SYSCALL_TIMES for Linux times
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On 15 Dec 2015 10:12, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> I think the correct fix is to make all *_SYSCALL macros operate on long
> long when handling the syscall return value.

i think the concern is about the opposite behavior -- code relying on the
value being truncated/extended in most places to 32bits.  he started off
with that patch in the bug, but i'm not sure what came of it.
-mike

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