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+/* Copyright (C) 1993, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Contributed by Brendan Kehoe (brendan@zen.org).
+
+The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
+published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
+License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+Library General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
+License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
+not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,
+Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
+
+/* __brk is a special syscall under Linux since it never returns an
+error. Instead, the error condition is indicated by returning the old
+break value (instead of the new, requested one). */
+
+#include <sysdep.h>
+#include <errnos.h>
+
+#ifndef HAVE_GNU_LD
+#define _end end
+#endif
+
+ .extern _end,8
+
+ .data
+
+ .globl __curbrk
+__curbrk:
+ .quad _end
+
+ .text
+ENTRY(__brk)
+ ldgp gp, 0(t12)
+ .prologue 1
+
+ ldi v0, __NR_brk
+ call_pal PAL_callsys
+ subq a0, v0, t0
+ bne t0, error
+
+ /* Update __curbrk and return cleanly. */
+ stl a0, __curbrk
+ mov zero, v0
+ ret
+
+ /* What a horrible way to die. */
+error: ldi v0, ENOMEM
+ lda pv, syscall_error
+ jmp zero,(pv)
+
+ .end __brk
+
+weak_alias (__brk, brk)