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Re: __curbrk (and &_end)


> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 01:23:09PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > 
> > No other implementation will look like this, unless you replace syscall
> > with something like the linux INLINE_SYSCALL_* macros.
> 
> Fine. But it'd make it non-portable if used unconditionaly. How about adding
> this kludge in sysdeps/generic/sysdep.h:
> 
> #ifndef INLINE_SYSCALL
> #define INLINE_SYSCALL(name, nr, args...) syscall(name,args)
> #endif
> 
> This way there's always an INLINE_SYSCALL for falling back to.

My point is that there is nothing really usefully generic about this.


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