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Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2016 10:35:27 +0000
From:	Joseph Myers <joseph@...esourcery.com>
To:	Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
CC:	<libc-alpha@...rceware.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<arnd@...db.de>, <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	<marcus.shawcroft@....com>, <philb@....org>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<szabolcs.nagy@....com>, <maxim.kuvyrkov@...aro.org>,
	<pinskia@...il.com>, Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/27] [AARCH64] ILP32: introduce syscalls that pass
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Yury Norov wrote:

>  create mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ilp32/fallocate.c
>  create mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ilp32/fallocate64.c
>  create mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ilp32/ftruncate.c
>  create mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ilp32/ftruncate64.c
>  create mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ilp32/llseek.c
>  create mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ilp32/lseek.c
>  create mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ilp32/mmap.c
>  create mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ilp32/posix_fadvise.c
>  create mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ilp32/posix_fadvise64.c
>  create mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ilp32/pread.c
>  create mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ilp32/pread64.c
>  create mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ilp32/pwrite.c
>  create mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ilp32/pwrite64.c
>  create mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ilp32/readahead.c
>  create mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ilp32/truncate.c
>  create mode 100644 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ilp32/truncate64.c

I don't like how you need so many ilp32 files.

Presumably this is a new convention to be followed for all future ilp32 
ABIs on 64-bit architectures.  Meaning that you should have some sysdeps 
macros to say whether this convention is in use and then make either the 
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux files, or the .../generic files, or a new 
architecture-independent sysdeps directory, implement that convention.

Note also how Adhemerval recently unified pread / pwrite implementations.  
Adding new files for those functions goes against that unification.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@...esourcery.com