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Re: PATCH: Add sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/x32/lseek.S
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
> >> Like x86-64, x32 doesn't provide llseek at all. Just like x86-64,
> >> x32 llseek.o defines lseek/lseek64:
> >
> > Well, it would be cleaner for both if lseek.o defines lseek
> > and llseek.o is empty.
>
> This is controlled by sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64/syscalls.list
>
> # Whee! 64-bit systems naturally implement llseek.
> llseek EXTRA lseek Ci:iii __libc_lseek __lseek lseek __libc_lseek64
> __llseek llseek __lseek64 lseek64
>
> It is the same fora ll 64-bit archs. X32 just followed them.
There it makes some sense because it actually defines the symbol llseek.
You said x32 was not going to provide llseek at all, which is different
from x86_64 (which does define llseek).
Thanks,
Roland