Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:57:34 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers |
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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...
-hpa
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