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From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Feature request: building musl in a portable way
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:49:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171222174922.GC1627@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VI1PR0502MB3885E01DBE6F99A0F36C39B9E7020@VI1PR0502MB3885.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com>

On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 05:10:20PM +0000, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> That's how we're using Musl on WebAssembly. Musl uses Linux
> syscalls, so we implement Linux syscalls to keep Musl happy.

A bit of a historical note on this: in the late 80s and 90s there was
an effort called "iBCS" to make a unified ABI for Intel-based unices.
I believe a common syscall layer was part of it. It was abandoned
after everybody realized that the Linux syscall ABI _was_, for all
practical purposes, the unified ABI they wanted.

Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-22 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-21 16:25 ardi
2017-12-21 21:38 ` Rich Felker
2017-12-22 16:09   ` ardi
2017-12-22 16:43     ` Rich Felker
2017-12-22 19:04       ` ardi
2017-12-23  8:18         ` Markus Wichmann
2017-12-23 20:57           ` ardi
2017-12-22 17:10     ` Nicholas Wilson
2017-12-22 17:49       ` Rich Felker [this message]
2017-12-22 18:01         ` Nicholas Wilson
2017-12-22 18:08           ` Rich Felker
2017-12-22 19:06             ` Nicholas Wilson
2017-12-22 19:27       ` ardi

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