diff --git a/libc/Android.mk b/libc/Android.mk
index 5baf38113..c3ee617e5 100644
--- a/libc/Android.mk
+++ b/libc/Android.mk
@@ -107,11 +107,9 @@ libc_common_src_files := \
 	bionic/name_mem.c \
 	bionic/pathconf.c \
 	bionic/perror.c \
-	bionic/pread.c \
 	bionic/ptsname.c \
 	bionic/ptsname_r.c \
 	bionic/pututline.c \
-	bionic/pwrite.c \
 	bionic/reboot.c \
 	bionic/recv.c \
 	bionic/sched_cpualloc.c \
@@ -181,6 +179,8 @@ libc_common_src_files += \
     bionic/__get_tls.cpp \
     bionic/lseek64.c \
     bionic/ndk_cruft.cpp \
+    bionic/pread.c \
+    bionic/pwrite.c \
     bionic/statfs.c \
 
 endif
diff --git a/libc/SYSCALLS.TXT b/libc/SYSCALLS.TXT
index f31073f88..ce79e9ccc 100644
--- a/libc/SYSCALLS.TXT
+++ b/libc/SYSCALLS.TXT
@@ -88,8 +88,10 @@ int     acct(const char*  filepath)  all
 # file descriptors
 ssize_t     read(int, void*, size_t)        all
 ssize_t     write(int, const void*, size_t)       all
-ssize_t     pread64(int, void*, size_t, off64_t) all
-ssize_t     pwrite64(int, void*, size_t, off64_t) all
+ssize_t     pread64(int, void*, size_t, off64_t) arm,mips,x86
+ssize_t     pread64|pread(int, void*, size_t, off_t) aarch64,x86_64
+ssize_t     pwrite64(int, void*, size_t, off64_t) arm,mips,x86
+ssize_t     pwrite64|pwrite(int, void*, size_t, off_t) aarch64,x86_64
 int         close(int)                      all
 pid_t       getpid()    all
 void*       mmap(void*, size_t, int, int, int, long)  aarch64,x86_64
diff --git a/libc/arch-aarch64/syscalls/pread64.S b/libc/arch-aarch64/syscalls/pread64.S
index 82a2fb213..941e55ff6 100644
--- a/libc/arch-aarch64/syscalls/pread64.S
+++ b/libc/arch-aarch64/syscalls/pread64.S
@@ -21,3 +21,6 @@ ENTRY(pread64)
 
     ret
 END(pread64)
+
+    .globl _C_LABEL(pread)
+    .equ _C_LABEL(pread), _C_LABEL(pread64)
diff --git a/libc/arch-aarch64/syscalls/pwrite64.S b/libc/arch-aarch64/syscalls/pwrite64.S
index ab4b502dc..9700aa3f9 100644
--- a/libc/arch-aarch64/syscalls/pwrite64.S
+++ b/libc/arch-aarch64/syscalls/pwrite64.S
@@ -21,3 +21,6 @@ ENTRY(pwrite64)
 
     ret
 END(pwrite64)
+
+    .globl _C_LABEL(pwrite)
+    .equ _C_LABEL(pwrite), _C_LABEL(pwrite64)
diff --git a/libc/arch-x86_64/syscalls/pread64.S b/libc/arch-x86_64/syscalls/pread64.S
index 25378c81d..05dc02142 100644
--- a/libc/arch-x86_64/syscalls/pread64.S
+++ b/libc/arch-x86_64/syscalls/pread64.S
@@ -17,3 +17,6 @@ ENTRY(pread64)
 1:
     ret
 END(pread64)
+
+    .globl _C_LABEL(pread)
+    .equ _C_LABEL(pread), _C_LABEL(pread64)
diff --git a/libc/arch-x86_64/syscalls/pwrite64.S b/libc/arch-x86_64/syscalls/pwrite64.S
index c3692e978..a1e0ea121 100644
--- a/libc/arch-x86_64/syscalls/pwrite64.S
+++ b/libc/arch-x86_64/syscalls/pwrite64.S
@@ -17,3 +17,6 @@ ENTRY(pwrite64)
 1:
     ret
 END(pwrite64)
+
+    .globl _C_LABEL(pwrite)
+    .equ _C_LABEL(pwrite), _C_LABEL(pwrite64)