Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 15:06:45 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, jb@cimlogic.com.au Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Syscall as weak symbols Message-ID: <199804280506.PAA12208@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>As part of a cleanup to things related to libc, I'd like to change
>the SYSCALL macro to generate (something like) __syscall_name as
>the non-weak symbol for the `name' syscall, and declare name as a
>weak symbol so that an "nm -W write.o" gives:
>
>00000008 T __syscall_write
> U cerror
>00000008 TW write
_write for a.out
This seems reasonable, provided weak symbols work right now. I would
prefer a prefix of `__' or even `_' instead of `_syscall_'.
Bruce
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