new syscall stub support for ia64 libc
David Mosberger
davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com
Fri Oct 31 16:45:00 GMT 2003
>>>>> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:01:14 +0100, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> said:
Jakub> Cannot tcbhead_t's private field be reused for the sysinfo pointer
Jakub> actually on IA-64?
As long as we can make it appear at offsets -8, that would be OK.
Jakub> That way 32 bytes wouldn't have to be wasted at end of struct
Jakub> pthread, it would be at the same location in linuxthreads as
Jakub> well as NPTL build
That's not sufficient. The offset must be the same across _all_ libcs,
so that non-libc code can use the new syscall stubs as well.
--david
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