Re: Question: removal of syscall macros?

From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Wed Dec 13 2006 - 15:01:43 EST


On 12/13/06, Teunis Peters <teunis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Now that syscall macros have been pulled from the -mm tree, what method
is recommended to use syscalls?

glibc forever had a syscall() function for just that purpose. It was
never a good idea to use the macros since they didn't work in PIC.
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