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

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 01:57:17 -0800 (PST), "David S. Miller" <[e-mail]> said:

  DaveM> You need to have a different kernel exit path, you need a
  DaveM> different one to chop off the top 32-bits of all the incoming
  DaveM> arguments anyways David.

You conveniently cut of the important part of my message:

	Remember that most compatibility syscalls go straight to the
	64-bit syscall handlers.  You're probably hosed anyhow if a
	64-bit syscall returns, say, 0x1ffffffff, but on ia64 I'd
	still rather play it safe and consistently have all
	compatibility syscalls return a 64-bit sign-extended value
	like all other syscall handlers ("least surprise" principle).

I have zero interest debugging subtle bugs of this sort.  If "long"
isn't an option, we should add a platform-specific compat32_retval_t
or whatever.

	--david