Re: [LTP] ltp_clone alignment issues.

Carmelo AMOROSO
2010-11-11T08:11:08Z

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On 11/11/2010 8:57 AM, Subrata Modak wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 12:24 +0100, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote:
> 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 ?
>

I think so: this one
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4CA09D4D.6050708%40st.com&forum_name=ltp-list

Cheers,
carmelo

>> Regards--
>> Subrata
>
>
> Carmelo
>
> >
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