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From: chrubis@suse.cz
To: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Cc: ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH/RFC] profil01: don't use address of function
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 16:32:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140820143252.GA23782@rei> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d00e2fbc8b2b96403e841845b3df25104dada721.1408543124.git.jstancek@redhat.com>

Hi!
> This testcase is failing on ppc64 BE system, because
> address of &test_profil does not reference beginning of code,
> but entry in .opd section:
>   "This section contains the official procedure descriptors.
>    A pointer to a function shall reference a procedure descriptor
>    in this section."
> which was at address larger than all .text of test_profil.
> 
> This patch is replacing address of function approach with gcc's
> __builtin_return_address() to get current pc value.

How is it with compatibility? In which gcc version was this building
introduced? Does it work with clang?

If we are in doubt, we should add a configure check and use it only when
available. And probably to default to &test_profil in all cases but
ppc64 BE which is known to fail.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-20 14:00 [LTP] [PATCH/RFC] profil01: don't use address of function Jan Stancek
2014-08-20 14:32 ` chrubis [this message]
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2014-08-26  8:55     ` chrubis
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2014-08-26  9:22         ` chrubis

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