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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: GNU libc hackers <libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: __builtin_frame_address vs %esp in pt-machine.h
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 13:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D9F6251.30000@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210052155.g95LtK226078@magilla.sf.frob.com>

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Roland McGrath wrote:
> What was the reason for this change in linuxthreads?
> 
>      2001-04-12  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@redhat.com>
> 
> 	     * sysdeps/i386/Makefile: Make sure gcc uses a frame pointer for
> 	     all the files which use CURRENT_STACK_FRAME.
> 	     * sysdeps/i386/pt-machine.h (CURRENT_STACK_FRAME): Define using
> 	     __builtin_frame_address.
> 	     * sysdeps/i386/i686/pt-machine.h: Likewise.
> 
> The -fomit-frame-pointer build is broken for !FLOATING_STACKS because we
> failed to keep the sysdeps/i386/Makefile up to date with every source file
> that uses THREAD_*MEM (probably my fault). 

The problem is the ptlongjmp.c code.  For its use of CURRENT_STACK_FRAME
the value must be as accurate as possible since otherwise the detection
of frames which have to be handled might be wrong.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-05 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-05 15:06 Roland McGrath
2002-10-06 13:24 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2002-10-18 13:04   ` Roland McGrath
2002-10-18 20:43     ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-11-06  0:58       ` Roland McGrath

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