Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it | Date | Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:47:18 +0100 |
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Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:
> On Thursday 12 November 2015 10:44:55 Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes: >> >> > What do you mean with 32-bit off_t? >> >> An ABI with 32-bit off_t, ie. all currently implemented 32-bit ABIs. >> >> > Do you mean that glibc emulates a 32-bit off_t on top of the 64-bit >> > __kernel_loff_t? >> >> Glibc is bridging the user-space ABI to the kernel ABI. > > Ok, but why?
That's how the ABI is defined right now. I didn't make that up.
Andreas.
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