From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750984Ab1H0Ek7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:40:59 -0400 Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:50511 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750758Ab1H0Ek6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:40:58 -0400 Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:40:50 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Linus Torvalds , LKML , "H.J. Lu" , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers Message-ID: <20110827044050.GA3549@infradead.org> References: <4E582577.2060805@zytor.com> <4E582EAA.1040108@zytor.com> <4E5840FE.5090705@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E5840FE.5090705@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 05:57:34PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 08/26/2011 05:36 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > If you want to be compatible with "int 0x80" and old libraries, then I > > really don't see why you would introduce *anything* new. > > Just to be clear, the reason to keep the LFS stuff in there was to be > compatible with the existing 32-bit *programming model*, so that a > program recompiled from i386 to x32 should behave the same. > > Not that anyone should compile without -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 these days... Any new port should not even offer non-LFS system calls. They are a pain in the but, and I would sacrifice chicken if we coud stop glibc offering it as a default that way. > > -hpa > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ ---end quoted text---