Rich Felker
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effectivly revert commitddc7c4f936which was wrong; it caused a major regression on Linux versions prior to 2.6.36. old kernels did not properly preserve r2 across syscall restart, and instead restarted with the instruction right before syscall, imposing a contract that the previous instruction must load r2 from an immediate or a register (or memory) not clobbered by the syscall. since other changes were made since, including removal of the struct stat conversion that was replaced by separate struct kstat, this is not a direct revert, only a functional one. the "0"(r2) input constraint added back seems useless/erroneous, but without it most gcc versions (seems to be all prior to 9.x) fail to honor the output register binding for r2. this seems to be a variant of gcc bug #87733. further changes should be made later if a better workaround is found, but this one has been working since 2012. it seems this issue was encountered but misidentified then, when it inspired commit4221f154ff.
musl libc
musl, pronounced like the word "mussel", is an MIT-licensed
implementation of the standard C library targetting the Linux syscall
API, suitable for use in a wide range of deployment environments. musl
offers efficient static and dynamic linking support, lightweight code
and low runtime overhead, strong fail-safe guarantees under correct
usage, and correctness in the sense of standards conformance and
safety. musl is built on the principle that these goals are best
achieved through simple code that is easy to understand and maintain.
The 1.1 release series for musl features coverage for all interfaces
defined in ISO C99 and POSIX 2008 base, along with a number of
non-standardized interfaces for compatibility with Linux, BSD, and
glibc functionality.
For basic installation instructions, see the included INSTALL file.
Information on full musl-targeted compiler toolchains, system
bootstrapping, and Linux distributions built on musl can be found on
the project website:
http://www.musl-libc.org/