Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Sep 02 2011 - 23:05:55 EST
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 7:56 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We need to make decision on some system calls which take a pointer
> to structure with long. For example, msg calls take a pointer to
>
> struct msgbuf {
> long mtype; /* message type, must be > 0 */
> char mtext[1]; /* message data */
> };
>
> We have 3 choices:
>
> 1. Use long long for x32 and use 64bit msg system calls.
I think this sounds like the best option. As many plain 64-bit system
calls as humanly possible.
Linus
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