From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 76306.1226@compuserve.com,
ak@muc.de, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: i386 ABI and the stack
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:20:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <449CCBA1.9020904@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <787b0d920606231943x7aad43bwb108b6a88b678b1a@mail.gmail.com>
Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Since gcc-2.96 would access 256 bytes below the stack pointer
> (according to the valgrind man page), the kernel needs to allow
> for this in signal handlers anyway.
>
> I'm pretty sure I saw that code in the kernel in fact, but I
> can't find it now. Perhaps it got lost in a cleanup accident?
> (it sure would be nice to have continuous source control history)
We have it; you can graft on the pre-git history. See previous posts on
this and the git list.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-24 5:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-24 1:37 i386 ABI and the stack Albert Cahalan
2006-06-24 1:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-24 1:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-06-24 2:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-24 2:43 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-06-24 5:20 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-06-24 11:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-24 1:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
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