linux-kernel - Re: Question: removal of syscall macros?

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Date:	Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:01:14 -0800
From:	"Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@...il.com>
To:	"Teunis Peters" <teunis@...tersgift.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question: removal of syscall macros?

On 12/13/06, Teunis Peters <teunis@...tersgift.com> wrote:
> Now that syscall macros have been pulled from the -mm tree, what method
> is recommended to use syscalls?

glibc forever had a syscall() function for just that purpose.  It was
never a good idea to use the macros since they didn't work in PIC.
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