Re: PATCH: Fix errlist for mips

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:41:32PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:36:58PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > You know better than I what existing mips libc.so.6 ABIs have for the size
> > of sys_errlist.  But for the current version, 123 omits many of the errno
> > values I see in asm-mips/errno.h, and EDQUOT really is 1133.  So I don't
> > see how your change can be right.
> 
> That is what was in glibc 2.0 for mips. However, glibc 2.2 is the first
> glibc version I worked on. I don't have any mips binaries compiled
> against glibc 2.0. As far as I know, none of glibc prior to the one
> with all my mips patches applied ever worked 100% correct on mips.

Not everyone uses your MIPS patches; I have a completely functional
MIPS system with:
0019df30 l     O .data  000011b8              _new_sys_errlist
0019df30 l     O .data  000001ec              _old_sys_errlist

(That's 1134*4 in the new one and 123*4 in the older one).  There's a
lot of these beasts deployed and I'd hate to see an incompatible change
now!

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer