From: Martin Uecker <ma.uecker@gmail.com>
To: Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>
Cc: libffi-discuss <libffi-discuss@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: wide function pointer type
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 07:58:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <857da973fe5bbb94a363114262b57d42b35cc1f6.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bee7417a7acc67e5af8aff710a1bd55c4d6baa6b.camel@gmail.com>
I would be interested to learn about ABI issues
I might not be aware of.
In particular, I would be good to know whether
implementing a perfectly forwarding stub for
a variadic functions that loads the static
is possible on all architectures. I assume so,
but I am not entirely sure.
If not, we might need to restrict conversion for
regular functions pointers to wide pointers to only
allow functions without variadic args, or define
a new ABI for wide pointers, but this then
partially defeats the point (on the affected
architecture).
Martin
Am Montag, den 18.10.2021, 07:33 +0200 schrieb Martin Uecker:
> Hi Anthony,
>
> Am Sonntag, den 17.10.2021, 19:35 -0400 schrieb Anthony Green:
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > I haven't read the whole proposal yet, but I'll try to this week. I
> > did, however, read the first paragraph, and it says: "Trying to use
> > regular function pointers for callbacks with data requires run-time
> > code generation (e.g. nested functions in GCC or XL C, and closures in
> > libffi [1]) but this is complex, inefficient, and problematic from a
> > security point of view."
> >
> > This is no longer true for libffi on the important Linux platforms.
> > We use static code templates that are placed in memory at a fixed,
> > predetermined distance from the data they reference. There is no
> > runtime code generation. Well, to be fair, perhaps it is still
> > complex, but it's far more secure than before.
> >
> > Thanks for sharing. I'm not a language expert, but I know others here are.
>
> Thank you for your comments! I had to submit this to WG14 to meet
> the deadline for C23. So the final version (so far) is here:
>
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2787.pdf
>
> Of course, it is still possible to modify the proposal later.
>
> It is great to hear that libffi can create trampolines
> without run-time code generation! We previously discussed
> such an approach also for GCC, but nothing was implemented.
>
>
> Martin
>
>
> > AG
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 7:32 AM Martin Uecker via Libffi-discuss
> > <libffi-discuss@sourceware.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I will propose a wide function pointer type (actually
> > > a wide function type) to WG14 for C23 as a common
> > > type for callbacks, closures, which now require an
> > > additional void pointer argument in C APIs. This
> > > is intended to be compatible with ABIs with now
> > > use a static chain register.
> > >
> > > An early draft can be found here:
> > >
> > > http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~muecker1/wide_v4.pdf
> > >
> > >
> > > I thought you might be interested and I would love
> > > to hear your feedback.
> > >
> > > Martin
> > >
> > >
> > >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-18 5:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-10 11:32 Martin Uecker
2021-10-17 23:35 ` Anthony Green
2021-10-18 5:33 ` Martin Uecker
2021-10-18 5:58 ` Martin Uecker [this message]
2021-10-18 7:36 ` Florian Weimer
2021-10-18 7:56 ` Martin Uecker
2021-10-19 9:22 ` Florian Weimer
2021-10-19 9:43 ` Martin Uecker
2021-10-19 10:15 ` Florian Weimer
2021-10-19 12:13 ` Martin Uecker
2021-10-20 8:24 ` Kaz Kylheku (libffi)
2021-10-20 18:52 ` Martin Uecker
2021-10-20 9:10 ` Florian Weimer
2021-10-20 9:21 ` Martin Uecker
2021-10-20 9:27 ` Florian Weimer
2021-10-20 17:27 ` Kaz Kylheku (libffi)
2021-10-21 9:48 ` Florian Weimer
2021-10-10 17:01 Kaz Kylheku (libffi)
2021-10-10 17:44 ` Martin Uecker
2021-10-10 17:49 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-10-10 18:05 ` Martin Uecker
2021-10-10 18:17 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-10-10 18:47 ` Martin Uecker
2021-10-10 18:57 ` Daniel Colascione
2021-10-10 19:24 ` Martin Uecker
2021-10-16 8:08 ` Jarkko Hietaniemi
2021-10-16 9:35 ` Jarkko Hietaniemi
2021-10-10 18:31 ` Kaz Kylheku (libffi)
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