Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:00:53 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Start of compat32.h (again) |
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>>>>> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:42:28 +1100, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> said:
Stephen> I make the follwing assumptions: returning s32 from a 32 Stephen> bit compatibility system call is the same as returning long Stephen> or int.
That is not a safe assumption. The ia64 ABI requires that a 32-bit result is returned in the least-significant 32 bits only---the upper 32 bits may contain garbage. It should be safe to declare the syscall return type always as "long", no?
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