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Re: [PATCH] <bits/syscall.h>: Use an arch-independent system call list on Linux
On Apr 06 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> As a result, current glibc has this elaborate dance at built where it runs
> “gcc -E -dM” (with varying additional parameters to get the
> lib/libx32/lib64 variants). I want to get rid of that because it means
> that if you upgrade the kernel headers after building glibc, the SYS_* and
> __NR_* macros drift apart.
You have to rebuild glibc anyway if new syscalls come along, so there
isn't much difference.
Andreas.
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