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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: <libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>, Dan Malek <dan@mvista.com>,
	<cort@fsmlabs.com>, <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: PPC sysdep additions & problem
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 14:22:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010406122227.17368@mailhost.mipsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010406101714.12391@mailhost.mipsys.com>


>
>Note that so far, I had some problems loading binaries if I add
>3 entries to the aux table from the kernel with numbers 1000,1001,1002.
>I'm not sure what would have caused binaries not to load properly
>(apparently, their command line gets screwed, I'm not too sure yet).
>The glibc code that fills the "seen" mask definitely couldn't set
>bits for those entries, but this shouldn't have caused any problem.

Correcting myself, the behaviour of 1<<X with X>31 beeing undefined, the
compiler was free to do a modulo, and so caused some real "seen" bits to
be garbled.

So I would suggest modifying slightly glibc to not mask bits above 31,
thus allowing platform-specific high-value tags to be passed there in
the future.

In the meantime, I still need a <31 number allocated for those cache
line sizes ;)

Ben.


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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-06 10:17 PPC sysdep additions & problem Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-04-06 12:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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