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Re: [PATCH] RE: msgctl() on MIPS, n32 ABI.


Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:52:56PM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> > The __IPC_64 problem on {shm,sem,msg}ctl is not only for N32.  N64
> > also suffers this problem.  Certainly glibc can provide wrappers for
> > these system calls, as ARM EABI does.  A patch attached.
> 
> Why should o32 and n32 be treated differently?  It's n64 which is the
> odd man out, not o32.
> 
> Is it because n32 has a msgctl syscall instead of sys_ipc?

O32 uses a SYSV IPC (de-)multiplexer, NewABI uses a set of syscalls.


Thiemo


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