Thread (42 messages) 42 messages, 11 authors, 2021-05-24

Re: Linux powerpc new system call instruction and ABI

From: Joakim Tjernlund <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-19 07:34:30
Also in: linux-api

On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 02:13 +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
Hi,

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 06:12:01PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
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- Error handling: The consensus among kernel, glibc, and musl is to move to
  using negative return values in r3 rather than CR0[SO]=1 to indicate error,
  which matches most other architectures, and is closer to a function call.
What about syscalls like times(2) which can return -1 without it being an error?

 Jocke
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