From: Szabolcs Nagy via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
To: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
Cc: XingLi <lixing@loongson.cn>, Wang Xuerui <i.swmail@xen0n.name>,
adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org,
caiyinyu@loongson.cn, wanghongliang@loongson.cn,
hejinyang@loongson.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux: Change syscall return value to long int
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 09:37:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y4XS3gNxTPP7mHnw@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d285acf1214307e67e4aa0dea6305ed41ca491ad.camel@xry111.site>
The 11/29/2022 17:12, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> Xuerui: can you help to rewrite the commit message? The code change
> seems obvious but I'm not sure how to describe the rationale precisely
> either.
what about:
linux: Use long int for syscall return value
The linux syscall ABI returns long, so the generic syscall code for
linux should use long for the return value.
This fixes the truncation of the return value of the syscall function
when that does not fit into an int.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-29 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-29 3:16 [PATCH] linux: Change syscall return value to long int XingLi
2022-11-29 8:55 ` Szabolcs Nagy via Libc-alpha
2022-11-29 9:12 ` Xi Ruoyao via Libc-alpha
2022-11-29 9:37 ` Szabolcs Nagy via Libc-alpha [this message]
2022-11-29 10:54 ` XingLi
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