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Re: CVS commit: src



On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:45:14AM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> >>
> >>  Doesn't that break binary compat on 64-bit platforms?
> >>
> >>
> >>not as far as i could tell.  *phew*
> >
> >Why is that?  Because all our 64bit archs pass a second integer  
> >argument in a single register?
> 
> yep.

This is much the same reason as why the syscall stub for ioctl()
actually works at all!

        David

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