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Re: Inefficient ia64 system call implementation in glibc
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>
- To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>, linux ia64 kernel <linux-ia64 at vger dot kernel dot org>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:04:34 -0700
- Subject: Re: Inefficient ia64 system call implementation in glibc
- References: <20030919163218.GA21480@lucon.org>
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 09:32:18AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> The basically problem is glibc doesn't store information about what
> the kernel interface is so that it can't efficiently set up parameters
> for system calls. Is there a way to improve the situation?
Use __typeof instead of hard-coding long in the LOAD_ARGS macros.
That's where the extension comes from.
r~