Re: [LTP] ltp_clone alignment issues.

[Carmelo AMOROSO <carmelo.amoroso@st.com>]

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On 10/4/2010 9:05 PM, Hannu Heikkinen wrote:
> On 04/10/10 15:04 +0200, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote:
> -clip-
>  >
>  > Hannu,
>  > I don't think that it is a good to force the alignment; we could need to
>  > write a test case that calls LTP_clone with an unaligned stack just to
>  > test the behavior of the clone implementation.
>  >
>  > Likely, it should be useful to add a check inside the C lib clone
>  > implementation (arch specific) to protect against unaligned stack, but
>  > this is a different matter.
>  >
>  > I would just leave the LTP_clone passing the argument to the clone as
>  > they came from the caller.
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  > Carmelo
>  >
> 
> Hi Carmelo,
> 
> you've got point, yes. I was just so worried about the fact that in ARM
> architectures that previous eg clone02 failed due to alignment errors.
> But your fix of course fixed that issue, and it gives as a possiblity
> to make test case against alignment issues, quite right.
> 
> br,
> Hannu
> 

Folks,
any change to get this included for the next release ?

Carmelo

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