Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2012 06:50:39 +0200 | From | Richard Cochran <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6][RFC] Rework vsyscall to avoid truncation/rounding issue in timekeeping core |
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:29:50AM -0700, John Stultz wrote: > I believe its mostly historical, but on some architectures that > history has become an established ABI, making it technical.
Fine, but what do you mean by "ABI?" Are you talking about magic addresses for functions?
Without knowing the dirty details, what I imagine is a jump/branch from the arch-specific code into the common implementation.
Can that be done?
Thanks, Richard
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