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From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] mips: system call table generation support
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, Joseph Myers wrote:

> >  I believe this file is used by the glibc build process to retrieve 
> > syscall numbers for glibc's own use as well for <sys/syscall.h>.  Has the 
> > change been verified not to break this process?
> > 
> >  Cc-ing <libc-alpha@sourceware.org> for information and possible further 
> > input.
> 
> I'm not sure what "this file" is.  The glibc build uses the installed 
> <asm/unistd.h> (the results of #including it, not any other kind of 
> processing the file).

 So how are `SYS_<name>' macros generated that land in <bits/syscall.h>?

  Maciej