Re: [PATCH] Start of compat32.h (again)

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:42:28 +1100, Stephen Rothwell <[e-mail]> said:

  Stephen> I make the follwing assumptions: returning s32 from a 32
  Stephen> bit compatibility system call is the same as returning long
  Stephen> or int.

That is not a safe assumption.  The ia64 ABI requires that a 32-bit
result is returned in the least-significant 32 bits only---the upper
32 bits may contain garbage.  It should be safe to declare the syscall
return type always as "long", no?

	--david