On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 20:37 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ulrich Drepper <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
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