Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] prototypes for *at functions & typo fix | From | Nicholas Miell <> | Date | Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:56:26 -0800 |
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On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 20:37 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > Do we really need the __NR_ia32_* macros? The userlevel on x86-64 should be bi-arch and provide the native ia32 unistd.h. > > I'd have thought that x86 and x86_64 could source-level-share the syscall > table, yes. ppc manages to.
AMD64 renumbered all the syscalls for optimal cacheline usage or something stupid like that. I suppose the x86 emulation on AMD64 kernels could share the i386 table, but then _NR_foo will have a different value depending on context, and that'll just get confusing.
-- Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
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