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SubjectRe: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers
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.

>
> -hpa
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