linux-kernel - Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers

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Message-ID: <CAMe9rOpGxNWD=gdvyVpi7V7BrwwWrpLTWdkmTjPqJ1+SUvhA0A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:05:49 -0700
From:	"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Richard Kuo <rkuo@...eaurora.org>,
	Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>,
	Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>,
	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
Subject: Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> I really think that "x32" should try to aim *VERY* hard at using the
> 64-bit system calls, and seeing itself as being a "32-bit application
> in a 64-bit world".  That's not just true for time_t (which I think
> should be 64-bit on anything new that expects to survive for any
> amount of time), but in general.
>

I have been making x32 to use 64bit system calls as much as possible.
Hopefully, I will get it to work in a week or 2.

-- 
H.J.
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