[PATCH 2/3] ARM: convert to generated system call tables

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at armlinux.org.uk
Fri Oct 21 09:57:21 PDT 2016


On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 04:48:36PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2016, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 
> > To stop adding OABI syscalls altogether.  I'm sure that there will
> > come a point (if it hasn't already) that glibc no longer supports
> > OABI, and at that point it probably becomes rather silly to keep
> > adding OABI syscalls.
> 
> glibc hasn't supported OABI since 2012 (support removed in version 2.16 
> released 2012-06-30).  GCC support was also removed in 2012 (removal 
> released in version 4.8, released 2013-03-22).

Right, so arguably its pointless adding new syscalls to OABI anymore.

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