From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30664 invoked by alias); 27 Jun 2013 15:22:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 30600 invoked by uid 48); 27 Jun 2013 15:21:51 -0000 From: "amodra at gmail dot com" To: glibc-bugs@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug nptl/15687] powerpc64 abi breakage with nocancel functions Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:22:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: nptl X-Bugzilla-Version: 2.18 X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: amodra at gmail dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00225.txt.bz2 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15687 --- Comment #2 from Alan Modra --- They might be hidden in libc.so, but not in the static library. nm libc.a | grep __pause_nocancel 000000000000000c T __pause_nocancel You would not be able to set a function pointer to any of these functions, then call via the pointer. Not that anyone is likely to want to do such a thing, I'm just pointing out one of the consequences of no function descriptor. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.