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Re: [PATCH] [BZ #19371] Properly handle x32 syscall
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:02:08 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] [BZ #19371] Properly handle x32 syscall
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2015, H.J. Lu wrote:
>
>> > Sorry, I was talking about manual/startup.texi:
>> >
>> > manual/startup.texi:727:@deftypefun {long int} syscall (long int
>> > @var{sysno}, @dots{})
>> > manual/startup.texi-728-@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{}}
>> > manual/startup.texi-729-
>> > manual/startup.texi-730-@code{syscall} performs a generic system call.
>> >
>>
>> Here is the updated patch. OK for master?
>
> That can't possibly be right. User documentation needs to be in terms of
> types exposed to the user (and documented as such), not anything starting
> __.
It is lower priority for me since people should use lseek, time and
times instead of syscall ().
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H.J.