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

[H.J. Lu]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
>>> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> All x86_64 and x32 syscalls return a 64-bit value.
>>>
>>
>> For x86_64 and x32, many, if not most, of system calls return int.
>> Some returns long.  Only 3, lseek, time and times, returns long long.
>
> On the assembler level, all of them return a 64-bit value.
>

We are talking C codes here, not assembly codes.

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H.J.