Re: [PATCH 6/7] remove all remaining _syscallX macros

Andi Kleen
2006-08-28T07:36:04Z

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:

> The _syscallX macros were originally used by libc implementations,
> but now there is no libc that can be built against an up-to-date
> kernel an relies on them.
> The only users of these macros are the __KERNEL_SYSCALLS_, which
> are now gone as well, after execve has been removed from the
> kernel.

I would prefer to keep them on i386/x86-64 at least because
a lot of my test programs are using them.

-Andi