From: Zhangjin Wu
> Sent: 06 June 2023 09:10
>
> most of the library routines share the same code model, let's add two
> helpers to simplify the coding and shrink the code lines too.
>
...
> +/* Syscall return helper, set errno as -ret when ret < 0 */
> +static inline __attribute__((always_inline)) long __sysret(long ret)
> +{
> + if (ret < 0) {
> + SET_ERRNO(-ret);
> + ret = -1;
> + }
> + return ret;
> +}
If that right?
I thought that that only the first few (1024?) negative values
got used as errno values.
Do all Linux architectures even use negatives for error?
I thought at least some used the carry flag.
(It is the historic method of indicating a system call failure.)
David
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