This is the mail archive of the libc-alpha@sourceware.org mailing list for the glibc project.

Index Nav:	[Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav:	[Date Prev] [Date Next]	[Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format:	[Raw text]

Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] sysv/linux: Rename alpha functions to be alpha specific

From: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
To: Alistair Francis <alistair dot francis at wdc dot com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Alistair Francis <alistair23 at gmail dot com>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:11:20 -0500
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] sysv/linux: Rename alpha functions to be alpha specific
References: <20200210174325.6566-1-alistair.francis@wdc.com> <20200210174325.6566-2-alistair.francis@wdc.com>

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 12:50 PM Alistair Francis
<alistair.francis@wdc.com> wrote:
>
> These functions are alpha specifc, rename them to be clear.

These functions were meant to be generic.  I put the file in
s/u/s/l/alpha because it was only *used* on Alpha, at the time.

What's stopping you from using these functions on all architectures?

zw

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] sysv/linux: Rename alpha functions to be alpha specific
  - From: Alistair Francis

References:
- [PATCH v2 0/6] Always use long time_t for certain syscalls
  - From: Alistair Francis
- [PATCH v2 1/6] sysv/linux: Rename alpha functions to be alpha specific
  - From: Alistair Francis

Index Nav:	[Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav:	[Date Prev] [Date Next]	[Thread Prev] [Thread Next]