>>>>> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:42:28 +1100, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> said:
Stephen> I make the follwing assumptions: returning s32 from a 32
Stephen> bit compatibility system call is the same as returning long
Stephen> or int.
That is not a safe assumption. The ia64 ABI requires that a 32-bit
result is returned in the least-significant 32 bits only---the upper
32 bits may contain garbage. It should be safe to declare the syscall
return type always as "long", no?
--david
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