Re: [LTP] ltp_clone alignment issues.

Subrata Modak
2010-11-11T07:57:36Z

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 12:24 +0100, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote:
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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 ?

Did we miss any patch here ?

Regards--
Subrata

>
> Carmelo
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