new syscall stub for ia64 linux

David Mosberger davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com
Sat Jan 18 06:27:00 GMT 2003


I don't think anybody gave me feedback on this question:

>>>>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 23:28:30 -0800, David Mosberger <davidm@linux.hpl.hp.com> said:

  David> One rather ugly hack though is that in libc-start.c, I had to
  David> reverse the order of DL_SYSDEP_OSCHEC() and
  David> __pthread_initialize_minimal(): the former calls uname() and
  David> with the new syscall stub, the thread-pointer needs to be
  David> valid before a system call can be invoked.  If this isn't
  David> acceptable, suggestions for improvements would be welcome.

Is this an OK thing to do?

	--david



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