[PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it

Andreas Schwab schwab at suse.de
Thu Nov 12 01:44:55 PST 2015


Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> writes:

> What do you mean with 32-bit off_t?

An ABI with 32-bit off_t, ie. all currently implemented 32-bit ABIs.

> Do you mean that glibc emulates a 32-bit off_t on top of the 64-bit
> __kernel_loff_t?

Glibc is bridging the user-space ABI to the kernel ABI.

Andreas.

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