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Re: new syscall stub support for ia64 libc

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: davidm at hpl dot hp dot com
Cc: libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com, davidm at napali dot hpl dot hp dot com
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:44:30 -0800
Subject: Re: new syscall stub support for ia64 libc
Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
References: <200310290426.h9T4Q9pw014305@napali.hpl.hp.com>

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David Mosberger wrote:

> What I'd like to see is something that makes it possible for
> non-threaded and NPTL apps to take advantage of the new syscall stubs.

We do this for x86 as well.  The thread register is simply set up for
every program, not only threaded programs.  And this is done on x86
inside ld.so.  I assume you want something like this.  Otherwise I don't
understand the reference to NPTL.

> If LinuxThreads apps don't get the benefit, that's OK, I suppose.

I couldn't care less about LT.

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References:
- new syscall stub support for ia64 libc
  - From: David Mosberger

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