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Subject: [Bug other/100735] New: -fno-trampolines doc wrongly implies it
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https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D100735

            Bug ID: 100735
           Summary: -fno-trampolines doc wrongly implies it affects C, C++
                    etc.
           Product: gcc
           Version: 11.1.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: other
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          Reporter: eggert at gnu dot org
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Created attachment 50859
  --> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=3D50859&action=3Dedit
doc patch for -fno-trampolines confusion

The GCC manual's documentation of -fno-trampolines was apparently written f=
rom
an Ada point of view. However, when I read it I understandably mistook it to
say that -fno-trampolines also works for C, C++, etc. It doesn't: it is
silently ignored for these languages, and I assume for any language other t=
han
Ada.

This confusion caused me to go in the wrong direction in a Gnulib dicussion=
, as
I mistakenly thought that entire C apps with nested functions could be comp=
iled
with -fno-trampolines and then use nested C function in stack overflow hand=
lers
where the alternate stack is allocated via malloc. I was wrong, as this won=
't
work on common platforms like x86-64 where malloc yields non-executable
storage.

A proposed fix for the GCC manual is attached.=