Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:40:50 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers |
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 05:57:34PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 08/26/2011 05:36 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > If you want to be compatible with "int 0x80" and old libraries, then I > > really don't see why you would introduce *anything* new. > > Just to be clear, the reason to keep the LFS stuff in there was to be > compatible with the existing 32-bit *programming model*, so that a > program recompiled from i386 to x32 should behave the same. > > Not that anyone should compile without -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 these days...
Any new port should not even offer non-LFS system calls. They are a pain in the but, and I would sacrifice chicken if we coud stop glibc offering it as a default that way.
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