elm 2.5.3 and glibc 2.1.93
H . J . Lu
hjl@lucon.org
Fri Sep 22 09:09:00 GMT 2000
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 05:52:01PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
> > Take a look at glibc and ask why we have to save/restore errno all
> > over places where we support both new and old system calls. There are
> > reasons behind that. I don't recall the details. Someone may remember
> > it.
> Initially we used to save/restore errno, later we noticed that this is
> not needed. All new code (at least code that Ulrich and I recently
> added) doesn't save/restore errno - only older code does. I agree, we
> should unify this, but so far nobody spoke up.
>
> Btw. this issue of saving/restoring errno has been discussed already
> on the list and we came to the conclusion that it's not needed in this
> situation.
It has been a while since I ran vsx. Has anyone else ever tried vsx
on glibc?
H.J.
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