__curbrk (and &_end)

Robert Millan zeratul2@wanadoo.es
Tue Feb 24 11:35:00 GMT 2004


On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 01:23:09PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> 
> No other implementation will look like this, unless you replace syscall
> with something like the linux INLINE_SYSCALL_* macros.

Fine. But it'd make it non-portable if used unconditionaly. How about adding
this kludge in sysdeps/generic/sysdep.h:

#ifndef INLINE_SYSCALL
#define INLINE_SYSCALL(name, nr, args...) syscall(name,args)
#endif

This way there's always an INLINE_SYSCALL for falling back to.

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Robert Millan

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