Re: [PATCH] compat: add compat functions for *at syscalls

From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:39:52 +0100

> My impression is you're doing a lot of ugly code here just to 
> work around some pecularity of the sparc gcc. 

No, I'm simply sign extending arguments that need to
be signed.  PPC and other platforms do this too, just with
C code.  Actually I think s390x uses assembler stubs as well.
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