On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:14:12AM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> The N32 syscall table uses sys_fallocate instead of sys32_fallocate.
> However, glibc expects to be using the syscall version with 32-bit
> arguments on N32, which should work with sys32_fallocate but not
> sys_fallocate.
>
> What should the N32 interface for this syscall be? My inclination is that
> glibc is right not to do anything special and different from other 32-bit
> ABIs here, and so sys32_fallocate should be used.
>
> (glibc is also expecting the 32-bit version for N64, but that's a clear
> bug in glibc that I'll be fixing.)
There are exceptions such as pipe(2) or clone(2) but the calling convention
of most syscalls in all ABIs is following the C calling conventions for the
respective ABI, so N32 fallocate(2) receives it's syscalls like a N32
function call would.
o32-style arguments would require splitting the two 64-bit loff_t arguments
to be split into 2 32-bit halfs each in userspace and those pairs then to
be re-assembled into 64-bit arguments in kernel. Bit messy, no?
Ralf
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