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From: Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>
To: "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" <madvenka@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: libffi-discuss <libffi-discuss@sourceware.org>,
	fweimer@redhat.com,  DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/5] Libffi Static Trampolines
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:41:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACxje5-zmPysuo6yPskbXXCxQoe-gF6j0oSxfXOg3zZZNRp+tQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210115184653.124913-1-madvenka@linux.microsoft.com>

Madhaven,

  Thank you for your continued efforts here.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 1:47 PM <madvenka@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Trampoline API
> ==============
>
> There is a lot of dynamic code out there. They all have the same security
> issue. Dynamic code can be re-written into static code provided the data
> required by the static code can be passed to it just like we pass the
> closure
> pointer to an ABI handler.
>
> So, the same trampoline functions used by libffi internally need to be
> made available to the rest of the world in the form of an API. The
> following API has been defined in this solution:
>


I need a better explanation around why this new API is required, and this
new capability isn't just an implementation detail supporting the old API.

Thanks,

AG

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-26 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1ef5c7e1c9a6ebb140a476ba555ec955681f4fba>
2021-01-15 18:46 ` madvenka
2021-01-15 18:46   ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/5] " madvenka
2021-01-27  3:31     ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-27 21:51       ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-27 22:15         ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-27 22:43           ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-15 18:46   ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/5] x86: Support for " madvenka
2021-01-27  3:31     ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-28 21:59       ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-28 22:17         ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-28 23:25           ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-29  2:09             ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-29  2:38               ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-29  2:48                 ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-29  3:24                   ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-29  6:07                     ` DJ Delorie
2021-02-01 19:46                 ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-15 18:46   ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/5] i386: " madvenka
2021-01-15 18:46   ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/5] arm64: " madvenka
2021-01-15 18:46   ` [RFC PATCH v3 5/5] arm: " madvenka
2021-01-26 23:41   ` Anthony Green [this message]
2021-01-27 17:20     ` [RFC PATCH v3 0/5] Libffi " Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-27 18:00       ` Anthony Green
2021-01-27 19:45         ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-28 14:21           ` Anthony Green
2021-01-28 17:01             ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-02-05 18:20               ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-02-05 18:46                 ` Anthony Green
2021-02-05 19:38                   ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-02-07 16:09                     ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman

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