Use of NEED_DL_SYSINFO

Ian Wienand ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au
Tue Apr 22 01:47:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 06:26:10PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> You are misusing the symbol.  There is nothing wrong with its use.
> You'll have to use something different for the ia64 fast syscalls.

But everything (else) can be the same between the two!  We get passed
the pointer via AT_SYSINFO, all the setup stuff in NPTL etc.  Having
some other symbol seems a bit redundant.  Maybe ia32 could create
another symbol for it's non-generic parts?

To see more clearly you can of course see the patches

http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/~ianw/fsyscall/nptl-0-34-fsyscall.diff

-i



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