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From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
Cc: <libc-ports@sourceware.org>, <patches@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Fix clone code when built for Thumb.
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1308291924210.1487@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <521F9E4E.5040906@linaro.org>

On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Will Newton wrote:

> The mov lr, pc instruction will lose the Thumb bit from the return address
> so use blx lr instead.
> 
> ports/ChangeLog.arm:
> 
> 2013-08-29  Will Newton  <will.newton@linaro.org>
> 
> 	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/clone.S (__clone): Use blx
> 	instead of mov lr, pc.

OK given a bug filed in Bugzilla and appropriate [BZ #N] notation and 
addition of the fixed bug number to NEWS.  Since this is a regression 
arising from the changes to build .S files as Thumb, you should also 
cherry-pick the fix to 2.18 branch.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-29 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-29 19:17 Will Newton
2013-08-29 19:26 ` Joseph S. Myers [this message]
2013-08-29 20:19   ` Will Newton
2013-08-29 20:56     ` Add willnewton to glibc group Joseph S. Myers
2013-08-30 10:18   ` [PATCH] ARM: Fix clone code when built for Thumb Will Newton
2013-08-30 17:35     ` Carlos O'Donell

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