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Ralf Baechle wrote:
> So MAX_ERRNO of EMAXERRNO which was also being used in assembler code.
> Other architectures may have the same issue, so I propose wrapping the
> C parts with #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ to keep as happy.
> 

Indeed; this should definitely be accessible to assembly code.  I'd like 
to change the hard-coded constants in klibc over time to use this.

	-hpa