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From: XingLi <lixing@loongson.cn>
To: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>, Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
Cc: 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 18:54:50 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4de222a-81ad-4327-e4af-fe90521ae98d@loongson.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y4XS3gNxTPP7mHnw@arm.com>



在 2022/11/29 下午5:37, Szabolcs Nagy 写道:
> 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.
> 
thanks


      reply	other threads:[~2022-11-29 10:55 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
2022-11-29 10:54       ` XingLi [this message]

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