Re: compiler problem

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 03:46:41PM -0800, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:

> > Is this part of the binary compatibility execve(2) syscall?  I wasted a lot
> > of time because our MIPS compiler did die on my execve(2) compat syscall.
> 
> Yes, this is so that 32 bit execs go to sys32_execve, instead of
> sys_execve. The reason being that the argv[]/envp[] has to be
> copied specially, since these entries are only 32bit large for
> mips32.

Ok, so it's what I already did observe in my kernel.  I've got a workaround
which seems to be stable but no fix for the compiler.

  Ralf