From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Cc: "Ian Lance Taylor via Gcc-patches" <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
gofrontend-dev <gofrontend-dev@googlegroups.com>,
"Sören Tempel" <soeren@soeren-tempel.net>
Subject: Re: libgo patch committed: Use a C function to call mmap
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 23:21:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87352lomnw.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKOQZ8xwkvVe7CoK9EVKZvjDgRfOdDH0eBWximW2x6R0SVrneA@mail.gmail.com> (Ian Lance Taylor's message of "Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:37:03 -0700")
On Jun 20 2023, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> OK, but I think that it does have something to do with big-endian.
> The bug was that on some 32-bit systems it was passing a 64-bit value
> to a function that expected a 32-bit value. The problem didn't show
> up on 32-bit x86 because it is little-endian, and did show up on
> 32-bit PPC because it is big-endian. I guess the armv7 case was
> failing for a different reason.
Not failing is no proof for correctness. It fails everywhere for the
same reason.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-20 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-20 16:57 Ian Lance Taylor
2023-06-20 18:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-06-20 19:37 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2023-06-20 21:21 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2023-06-21 3:33 ` [gofrontend-dev] " Cherry Mui
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