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SubjectRe: 64-syscall args on 32-bit vs syscall()
On 03/15/2010 06:44 AM, Ralf Baechle wrote:
>
> Syscall is most often used for new syscalls that have no syscall stub in
> glibc yet, so the user of syscall() encodes this ABI knowledge. If at a
> later stage syscall() is changed to have this sort of knowledge we break
> the API. This is something only the kernel can get right.
>

One option would be to do a libkernel.so, with auto-generated stubs out
of the kernel build tree. As already discussed in #kernel this morning,
there are a number of sticky points with types and namespaces for this
this, but those aren't any worse than the equivalent problems for
syscall(3).

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.



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