[PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it
Joseph Myers
joseph at codesourcery.com
Mon Nov 16 04:03:09 PST 2015
On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> There are two separate aspects here:
>
> a) leave out the support for all __off_t based syscalls (__ftruncate,
> __lseek, __lxstat, __pread, __preadv, __pwrite, __pwritev, __truncate,
> __xstat) as they are no longer needed, and change the handling of
> _FILE_OFFSET_BITS so that we default to 64 and error out for anything
> else.
> This needs to be done for all new 32-bit architectures if you think we
> should use a 64-bit off_t from now on, it's not arm64 specific.
It's not a matter of leaving anything out - these would simply use 64-bit
off_t (__off_t and __off64_t would be the same type) and the *64 versions
would be aliases, exactly the same as on 64-bit architectures. (And
_FILE_OFFSET_BITS handling would also be exactly the same as on 64-bit
architectures.) I see no reason for the set of off_t-related symbols that
exist, or which symbols are aliases of which others, to vary between pure
64-bit systems and ILP32 ABIs (for 32-bit or 64-bit architectures) that
simply happen to have had 64-bit off_t from the start.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph at codesourcery.com
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