From: Robert Love <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:31:02 -0400
> On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 13:27 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> > You'll notice that sys_ppc32.c has a ton of shims which purely
> > exist to sign extend "int" system call arguments. Sparc64 does
> > something similarly, but in assembler so that we don't eat the
> > overhead of a full stack frame just to sign extend arguments.
>
> Yah, but it looked like they did the sign extend thing for every int but
> file descriptors, and fd's are the only int's we have.
Ok, works for me :-)
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