Re: [PATCH 6/7] remove all remaining _syscallX macros

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Andi Kleen wrote:
On Monday 28 August 2006 16:05, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

The patch below should address both these issues, as long as the libc
has a working implementation of syscall(2).
I would prefer the _syscall() macros to stay independent of the 
actual glibc version. Or what do you do otherwise on a system
with old glibc? Upgrading glibc is normally a major PITA.

Why don't you just have a private version of the macros?

syscall(2) is, again, a horrible botch -- on architectures which requires alignment for register pairs, the extra register buggers up the alignment. One *can* work around it by making the syscall number 64 bits, but I think it's safe to say that no libc does that currently.
	-hpa
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