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From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca>
To: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] [PATCH] ELF32 userspace, ELF64 kernel, and 32-bit signals on hppa. (help needed)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:25:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031203202546.GI11034@systemhalted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031203072126.GB5828@systemhalted>

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:21:26AM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> 
> parisc,
> 
> *** Help needed, code broken ...  ***
> 
> There is a bug hiding in the code... I can't find it yet.
> Userspace sorta works, but sometimes processes go splat, and I think it
> has to do with the following:
> 
> - In restore_context32 I have to ship the 32-bit value into a 64-bit
>   registers. Should it be sign extended?
> = I think yes.
> - Is stack address 0xfffffffffaf00410 the same as 0x00000000faf00410?
> = No?

This turned out to be the issue. I just did a zero-extended load into an
unsigned variable and *everything* works now. I need to go into more
testing now.

c.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-03 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-03  7:21 [parisc-linux] [PATCH] ELF32 userspace, ELF64 kernel, and 32-bit signals on hppa. (help needed) Carlos O'Donell
2003-12-03  8:29 ` Joel Soete
2003-12-03 20:25 ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]

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