This is the mail archive of the
libc-ports@sources.redhat.com
mailing list for the libc-ports project.
Re: [PATCH] RE: msgctl() on MIPS, n32 ABI.
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:52:56PM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> > The __IPC_64 problem on {shm,sem,msg}ctl is not only for N32. N64
> > also suffers this problem. Certainly glibc can provide wrappers for
> > these system calls, as ARM EABI does. A patch attached.
>
> Why should o32 and n32 be treated differently? It's n64 which is the
> odd man out, not o32.
>
> Is it because n32 has a msgctl syscall instead of sys_ipc?
O32 uses a SYSV IPC (de-)multiplexer, NewABI uses a set of syscalls.
Thiemo