On 09/30/2011 08:54 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote: > >> On 26 July 2011 10:01, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <david.gilb...@linaro.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> + >>> +extern unsigned int __write(int fd, const void *buf, unsigned int count); >> >> Why are we using __write instead of write? > > Because plain write is in the user's namespace in ISO C. See what I said > in <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-07/msg00084.html> - the > alternative is hardcoding the syscall number and using the syscall > directly.
That would be better, no? Unless __write is part of the glibc API, which AFAIK it isn't. Andrew.
