From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] work around duff ABIs
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 05:45:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021020044513.GA54778@compsoc.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021020053147.C5285@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 05:31:47AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> *sigh*. i hate this kind of bullshit. please, don't anyone ever try
> to pass 64-bit args through the syscall interface again.
I was about to do exactly that ...
> + * LFS versions of truncate are only needed on 32 bit machines. PA-RISC
> + * and MIPS ABIs specify 64-bit alignment for 64-bit quantities, but glibc
> + * ignores this and passes 64-bit quantities in misaligned registers.
Isn't glibc broken ?
regards
john
--
"It's a cardboard universe ... and if you lean too hard against it, you fall
through."
- Philip K. Dick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-20 5:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-20 4:31 [PATCH] work around duff ABIs Matthew Wilcox
2002-10-20 4:45 ` John Levon [this message]
2002-10-20 4:51 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-20 12:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-10-21 12:14 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-22 4:43 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-22 13:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-10-21 12:13 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-21 13:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-10-21 16:26 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-04 5:10 ` Richard Henderson
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