Re: X32 psABI status

From: H.J. Lu
Date: Sun Feb 13 2011 - 17:13:01 EST


On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:03 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/13/2011 01:28 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>
>> That is is currently implemented on hjl/x32 branch.
>>
>> I also added
>>
>> __NR_sigaction
>> __NR_sigpending
>> __NR_sigprocmask
>> __NR_sigsuspend
>>
>> to help the Bionic C library.
>>
>
> That seems a little redundant... even on the i386 front we want people
> to use the rt_sig* system calls.  As a porting aid I can see it, but we
> should avoid deprecated system calls in the final version.
>

That is the plan. I don't want to spend more time on fixing the
Bionic C library. Once x32 glibc is running, I will remove those
ia32 system calls.

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H.J.
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