Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Make _syscallX() macros compile in PIC mode on i386

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On 3/10/06, Daniel Jacobowitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'd like to see these patches go in to the sanitized kernel headers
> > and/or the kernel.org tree.  I imagine that putting them in the kernel.org
> > tree is right, and they'd naturally percolate from there to the
> > various sanitized headers projects.
>
> It uses the headers for many things.  It does not use the _syscallX
> macros.

Sorry, I misspoke.
The glibc build process makes the _syscallX macros available
to userspace via the <asm/syscalls.h> include.
So even if glibc doesn't use those macros directly,
it does seem to pass them along.  Which is how
Markus got on to this whole topic in the first place.
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