glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sysdep.S

/* Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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/* Because the Linux version is in fact i386/ELF and the start.? file
   for this system (sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S) is also used by The Hurd
   and therefore this files must not contain the definition of the
   `errno' variable (I don't know why, ask Roland), we have to define
   it somewhere else.

   ...and this place is here.  */
.comm errno,4,4
_errno = errno	/* This name is expected by hj libc.so.5 startup code.  */

/* The following code is not used at all in the shared library.
   The PIC system call stubs set errno themselves.  */

#ifndef	PIC

/* The syscall stubs jump here when they detect an error.
   The code for Linux is almost identical to the canonical Unix/i386
   code, except that the error number in %eax is negated.  */

.globl __syscall_error
__syscall_error:
	negl %eax

#define __syscall_error __syscall_error_1
#include <sysdeps/unix/i386/sysdep.S>

#endif