Re: Quick fix for syscall man page

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

[Adding Adam Borowski in CC, since he wrote the riscv text back at the
start of 2018, andand he may have a comment.]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 18:35, Florin Blanaru <florin.blanaru96@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscall.2.html
>
> In the first table, for the riscv Arch/ABI, the instruction should be
> ecall instead of scall.
>
> According the official manual, the instruction has been renamed.
> https://content.riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/riscv-spec-v2.2.pdf
>
> "The SCALL and SBREAK instructions have been renamed to ECALL and
> EBREAK, re-spectively. Their encoding and functionality are
> unchanged."

Thanks for all of the details. I've applied the patch below.

Cheers,

Michael

diff --git a/man2/syscall.2 b/man2/syscall.2
index 77e6bccdd..33e5ea655 100644
--- a/man2/syscall.2
+++ b/man2/syscall.2
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ mips        syscall v0      v0      v1      a3      1, 6
 nios2  trap    r2      r2      -       r7
 parisc ble 0x100(%sr2, %r0)    r20     r28     -       -
 powerpc        sc      r0      r3      -       r0      1
-riscv  scall   a7      a0      a1      -
+riscv  ecall   a7      a0      a1      -
 s390   svc 0   r1      r2      r3      -       3
 s390x  svc 0   r1      r2      r3      -       3
 superh trap #0x17      r3      r0      r1      -       4, 6

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