Re: Linux powerpc new system call instruction and ABI
From: Joakim Tjernlund <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-19 07:34:30
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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: [...]quoted
- 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