syscall table patch

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Friday, Nov 7, 2003, at 12:48 US/Central, linas at austin.ibm.com wrote:
>
> First reason:
>    Because I wanted to define a macro to initialize the 32-bit and
> 64-bit
>    tables at the same time, and couldn't figure out how to do this at
>    compile time.
[snip]
>    and so one can't initialize 32 and 64 bit tables with one macro.

I don't see why that's important. They are different tables, after
all...

> Second reason:
>    If one does a simple C array such as the following:
>    (void (*)()) sys_call_table[NR_syscalls] = { ..., sys_execve, ...  }
>
>    Then its real easy to make off-by-one errors by accidentally
>    misplacing an initializer.
[snip]

This may be a C99 thing, but:

#include <stdio.h>
void main(void) {
     int array[] = { [12] = 1, };
     printf("%i\n", array[0]);
     printf("%i\n", array[12]);
}

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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