"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: > > On Wed, 23 May 2001, Jun Sun wrote: > > > Same old questions : Where is the definition of sysmips()? What is considered > > standard implementation of sysmips() so that we can do reverse-engineering? > > Irix? > > I think Ralf can comment it. > > > Even if Irix is considered standard implementation of sysmips(), I wonder if > > we need to mirror it. Here is my reasoning. > > > > The sytem V ABI specifies _test_and_set() as the exntended system call. > > I think we want to execute IRIX binaries. That would make sense to keep sysmips() as it is if your statement is true. But I thought the binary comptability with IRIX has long been broken. Can someone confirm that? If binary compatbility with IRIX is broken now, I don't think we should care to fix it in the future - obviously. :-) Jun
