Re: Strange gp corruption problem

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Mike Crowe wrote:
[snip]
> We have a function that does some string manipulation (not
> particularly dangerous manipulation and I've been through it
> carefully) and then calls atol. As expected the prologue of this
> function calculates the value of the gp register by applying an offset
> to the t9 register which contains the address of the start of the
> function like this:
> 
>  47995c:       3c1c0fba        lui     gp,0xfba

Looks weird as an entry point. Normally entries are 8 byte aligned.

[snip]
> The only user-space reason I can come up with for this happening is if
> the caller jumped into this function one instruction late. This seems
> unlikely because t9 contains the correct value and the stack looks
> fine.

Check the value of $ra (e.g. with a gdb breakpoint) after entering the
function.


Thiemo