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Re: [PATCH 3/4] Consolidate pread/pread64 implementations
- From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- To: Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl dot net>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 19:48:30 -0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Consolidate pread/pread64 implementations
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> Em 8 de jan de 2016, Ãs 19:02, Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net> escreveu:
>
>> On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 18:51 -0200, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>> I did not say that, what I said is the 'cancellable' syscalls is not a
>> good idea to go in syscalls.list. You have duplicate logic (the assembly
>> macros) and one need to reimplement function calls in assembly (which
>> should be handled by C) while taking care of PIC and non-PIC.
>
> Can't you rework the syscalls.list code to auto-generate C rather than
> assembler for the cancellable cases?
>
> p.
>
>
This is a future work I am planning to do, which also I think is orthogonal of the target I am aiming with these changes (the cancellation rewrite).