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Re: build failure

From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>,Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>,Glibc hackers <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 13:51:21 -0800
Subject: Re: build failure

> The interface is lousy.
> I suggest that INTERNAL_SYSCALL be re-architected to return an error
> indication as an output argument to the macro, i.e.
> 
>   result = INTERNAL_SYSCALL (errno, name, nr, args...) 

That is ok by me.  I considered a hairier interface to begin with.  At
first the uses of INTERNAL_SYSCALL were for a few special cases that cannot
fail and so weren't checked, so I just kept the macro interface minimal.

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