linux-kernel - Re: X32 psABI status

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Message-ID: <AANLkTimZFdMT77h5mP3C1wvhhp+TgZSQLjdgXWpdQwDK@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:12:51 -0800
From:	"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	x32-abi@...glegroups.com, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	GCC Development <gcc@....gnu.org>,
	GNU C Library <libc-alpha@...rceware.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: X32 psABI status

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:03 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> 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.

-- 
H.J.
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