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Re: Patch needed for CVS glibc on SH


Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> I believe this flushes my current patches to make glibc work on SH.  Issues:
>  - MIPS pread functions have some wackiness in them for the MIPS calling
>    conventions, which align long longs to even register pairs; it appears
>    that SH does not do this.  This fixes pread64/pwrite64.
>  - st_ino is _NOT_ 64-bit in the latest SH kernel trees, or at least it
>    wasn't when I checked in April.  --enable-kernel=2.4.x breaks terribly
>    without this patch; the errors are along the lines of "version GLIBC_2.3
>    not found", because that's the first consequence of a messed up inode
>    field - ld.so compares by inodes at some point.
[snip]
> 2003-06-19  Daniel Jacobowitz  <drow@mvista.com>
> 
> 	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h: Update kernel features
> 	for the SH architecture.

I agree with this one. About pread64/pwrite64, did you see the argument
in the another list
<URL:http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=10038494&list=3076>?

Regards,
	kaz


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