new syscall stub support for ia64 libc

Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com
Wed Nov 12 23:57:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:47:37PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:03:07 -0800, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> said:
> 
>   Uli> David Mosberger wrote:
> 
>   >> - The inline-syscall macros are now in a separate file,
> 
>   Uli> I don't like this one bit.  This makes ia64 sources different from the
>   Uli> rest which is not necessary.
> 
> So what do you suggest?  I don't think lowlevellock.h can include sysdep.h:
> 
>  - sysdep.h includes tls.h
>  - tls.h includes descr.h

2x yes

>  - descr.h includes lowlevellock.h

No.  lowlevellock.h doesn't need it, see what e.g. SPARC or PPC are doing
in lowlevellock.h.  Just a few inlines have to be replaced with macros,
that's all.

	Jakub



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