Re: [PATCH] work around duff ABIs

[Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 05:31:47AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> -asmlinkage ssize_t sys_pread64(unsigned int fd, char *buf,
> -			     size_t count, loff_t pos)
> +#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
> +asmlinkage ssize_t sys_pread64(unsigned int fd, char *buf, size_t count,
> +				unsigned int high, unsigned int low)
> +#else
> +asmlinkage ssize_t sys_pread64(unsigned int fd, char *buf, size_t count,
> +				unsigned int low, unsigned int high)
> +#endif

Broken for actual 64-bit targets.

I'd suggest frobbing the arguments in arch specific code
for those 32-bit targets that do pad 64-bit arguments to
the next even/odd register.  I disbelieve you can do 
anything cleanly here.


r~