On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, Joseph Myers wrote: > > > > I believe this file is used by the glibc build process to retrieve > > > syscall numbers for glibc's own use as well for <sys/syscall.h>. Has the > > > change been verified not to break this process? > > > > > > Cc-ing <libc-alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> for information and possible further > > > input. > > > > I'm not sure what "this file" is. The glibc build uses the installed > > <asm/unistd.h> (the results of #including it, not any other kind of > > processing the file). > > So how are `SYS_<name>' macros generated that land in <bits/syscall.h>? By gen-syscall-h.awk, which generates #ifdef conditionals for each possible __NR_* name (as listed in syscall-names.list in glibc). -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
