Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Oct 2002 05:45:13 +0100 | From | John Levon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] work around duff ABIs |
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On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 05:31:47AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> *sigh*. i hate this kind of bullshit. please, don't anyone ever try > to pass 64-bit args through the syscall interface again.
I was about to do exactly that ...
> + * LFS versions of truncate are only needed on 32 bit machines. PA-RISC > + * and MIPS ABIs specify 64-bit alignment for 64-bit quantities, but glibc > + * ignores this and passes 64-bit quantities in misaligned registers.
Isn't glibc broken ?
regards john
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