From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: "H.J. Lu via Libc-alpha" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add SYSCALL_LONG/SYSCALL_ULONG to pass long to syscall [BZ #25810]
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 04:54:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOqP5Z8kk2PCF9dde2L4ONmjGGqEJqmag+HiLgCz_wTrdQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMe9rOqmRyamraYL=VnKO0bSEkNA3AvqCXhTBnoX0DhJpKT-kw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 4:44 AM H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 1:23 AM Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> >
> > * H. J. Lu:
> >
> > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 1:44 PM Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> * H. J. Lu:
> > >>
> > >> > nohup: ignoring input and appending output to 'nohup.out'
> > >> > gnu-tools-1:pts/5[130]> m nohup.out
> > >> > In file included from ../sysdeps/x86_64/nptl/tls.h:28,
> > >> > from ../include/errno.h:25,
> > >> > from ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fexecve.c:18:
> > >> > ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fexecve.c: In function ‘fexecve’:
> > >> > ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/x32/sysdep.h:56:6: error: cast from pointer to
> > >> > integer of different size [-Werror=pointer-to-int-cast]
> > >> > 56 | : (long long int) (X))
> > >> > | ^
> > >>
> > >> Please try something like this:
> > >>
> > >> #define ARGIFY(X) \
> > >> ({ \
> > >> _Pragma ("GCC diagnostic push"); \
> > >> _Pragma ("GCC diagnostic ignored \"-Wpointer-to-int-cast\""); \
> > >> (sizeof (X) <= 4 && (__typeof__ (X)) 0 < (__typeof__ (X)) -1) \
> > >> ? (long long int) (unsigned long int) (X) \
> > >> : (long int long) (X); \
> > >> _Pragma ("GCC diagnostic pop"); \
> > >> })
> > >>
> > >> (__builtin_choose_expr does not work because it only suppresses
> > >> errors, not warnings.)
> > >>
> > >> It may not work in some cases because (__typeof__ (X)) 0 is not valid
> > >> if X is an array.
> > >
> > > It compiles, but doesn't work. We need to cast the input of
> > >
> > > #define TYPEFY(X, name) __typeof__ ((X) - (X)) name
> > > #define ARGIFY(X) ((__typeof__ ((X) - (X))) (X))
> > >
> > > to unsigned long long.
> >
> > Why does it fail? Are there any arguments besides pointers which must
> > not be sign-extended to 64 bits? According to syscall(2), I don't
> > think, so I still think we can make this work if we just avoid
> > sign-extending pointers.
>
> Here is a simple testcase:
>
> ---
> #define TYPEFY(X, name) __typeof__ ((X) - (X)) name
> #define ARGIFY(X) ((__typeof__ ((X) - (X))) (X))
>
> int
> foo (unsigned int arg1)
> {
> unsigned long int resultvar;
> TYPEFY (arg1, __arg1) = ARGIFY (arg1);
> register TYPEFY (arg1, _a1) asm ("rdi") = __arg1;
> asm volatile ("syscall\n\t"
> : "=a" (resultvar)
> : "0" (0xff), "r" (_a1)
> : "memory");
> return resultvar;
> }
> ---
>
> When compiled with -O2 -mx32, we need "movl %edi, %edi" before
> syscall
>
I may have found a solution.
--
H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-13 11:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-10 21:22 H.J. Lu
2020-04-11 10:01 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-11 13:26 ` H.J. Lu
2020-04-11 14:45 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-11 15:04 ` H.J. Lu
2020-04-11 15:10 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-11 15:23 ` H.J. Lu
2020-04-11 15:31 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-11 20:25 ` H.J. Lu
2020-04-11 20:47 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-11 21:58 ` H.J. Lu
2020-04-12 20:44 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-12 22:42 ` H.J. Lu
2020-04-13 8:23 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-13 11:44 ` H.J. Lu
2020-04-13 11:54 ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2020-04-13 14:26 ` H.J. Lu
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