Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] mips: system call table generation support

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Thu Dec 06 2018 - 12:04:13 EST


On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, Joseph Myers wrote:

> > I believe this file is used by the glibc build process to retrieve
> > syscall numbers for glibc's own use as well for <sys/syscall.h>. Has the
> > change been verified not to break this process?
> >
> > Cc-ing <libc-alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> for information and possible further
> > input.
>
> I'm not sure what "this file" is. The glibc build uses the installed
> <asm/unistd.h> (the results of #including it, not any other kind of
> processing the file).

So how are `SYS_<name>' macros generated that land in <bits/syscall.h>?

Maciej