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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: FR-V PLT audit
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050210164941.GA6437@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502100903.j1A93Mos031618@magilla.sf.frob.com>

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:03:22AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> That's not the concern.  The concern is that one could try to compile an
> audit library on a different platform and have it seem like it's ok because
> the signature happens to match, but in fact the audit library's
> pltenter/pltexit functions have not been ported properly to the machine you
> are compiling for.  Since those implementations are always
> machine-specific, having the API distinguish the machine in the names makes
> sure you have considered the target machine specifically.

Given that any non-trivial audit library will be looking at the 
arguments, and the structure member names are different for each
platform, what do you think the odds are that the library will
compile when configured incorrectly?

I'm thinking pretty low, myself.


r~

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-10 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <ork6ppa9ev.fsf@livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
2005-02-07  9:15 ` Fujitsu FR-V port (linuxthreads and nptl included) Alexandre Oliva
2005-02-07 19:37   ` Roland McGrath
2005-02-09  9:38   ` elf.h changes for FR-V FDPIC and TLS Alexandre Oliva
2005-03-13  9:17     ` Roland McGrath
2005-02-09  9:48   ` Fujitsu FR-V port (linuxthreads and nptl included) Alexandre Oliva
2005-02-09  9:57     ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-02-09 11:30       ` Alexandre Oliva
2005-03-13  9:15         ` Roland McGrath
2005-02-09  9:57   ` Introduce TRY_STATIC_TLS macro, used in FR-V Alexandre Oliva
2005-02-09 10:10     ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-02-09 11:07       ` Alexandre Oliva
2005-02-09 10:08   ` FR-V TLS macros Alexandre Oliva
2005-02-09 10:13     ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-02-09 11:15       ` Alexandre Oliva
2005-03-13  9:09     ` Roland McGrath
2005-02-09 11:01   ` FR-V PLT audit Alexandre Oliva
2005-02-09 11:15     ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-02-10  5:16       ` Richard Henderson
2005-02-10  6:43         ` Roland McGrath
2005-02-10  7:06           ` Richard Henderson
2005-02-10  7:19             ` Roland McGrath
2005-02-10  7:51               ` Richard Henderson
2005-02-10  9:03                 ` Roland McGrath
2005-02-10 16:51                   ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2005-02-09 11:02   ` using pre-TCB padding for static TLS Alexandre Oliva
2005-02-09 11:14     ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-02-09 11:35       ` Alexandre Oliva
2005-02-09 11:02   ` FR-V set_tid_address syscall number Alexandre Oliva
2005-02-09 11:11     ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-02-09 11:36       ` Alexandre Oliva

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