Re: c/8546: ebx is not being preserve for inline asm if -fPIC

Re: c/8546: ebx is not being preserve for inline asm if -fPIC

[bangerth]

Synopsis: ebx is not being preserve for inline asm if -fPIC

State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
State-Changed-By: bangerth
State-Changed-When: Mon Dec  2 13:06:32 2002
State-Changed-Why:
    Confirmed, with 3.2.2pre and 3.3CVS. I'm not sure, though,
    whether it is allowed to do what you do, or not. I leave this
    to others.

http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gcc&pr=8546

Re: c/8546: ebx is not being preserve for inline asm if -fPIC

[ebotcazou]

Synopsis: ebx is not being preserve for inline asm if -fPIC

State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->closed
State-Changed-By: ebotcazou
State-Changed-When: Thu Dec 19 09:27:03 2002
State-Changed-Why:
    Clobbering %ebx is now illegal in PIC mode on mainline (which will likely become gcc 3.4).

http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gcc&pr=8546

c/8546: ebx is not being preserve for inline asm if -fPIC

[daveb]

>Number:         8546
>Category:       c
>Synopsis:       ebx is not being preserve for inline asm if -fPIC
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Nov 12 06:06:05 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Dave Benson <daveb@ffem.org>
>Release:        gcc-3.0 and gcc-3.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
intel i386, Debian GNU/Linux
>Description:
It appears that %ebx is used by gcc to access global variables 
when -fPIC is specified.  Hence %ebx should be preserved
if __asm__ inlines add "%ebx" to the clobber list.

However, %ebx guards are not being added, so the resulting code has undefined behavior.
>How-To-Repeat:
just run the attached script, which makes two tiny .c files, compiles, links and runs the result, which segfaults when i do it.
>Fix:
i don't the proper fix. but a workaround is to push/pop %ebx at the beginning and end of the assembly block.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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