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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	riku.voipio@iki.fi, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	"Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bwiedemann@suse.de>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] ARM brk bug
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:08:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24nu5e3r8.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201203032117.39190.paul@codesourcery.com> (Paul Brook's message of "Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:17:37 +0000")

Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> writes:

>> 15545 brk(NULL) = 0x00012000
>> 15545 brk(0x00812000) = 0x00012000
>
> This is your bug.  According to the trace above, the brk call fails, but 
> returns success anyway.  A quick look at do_brk confirms this suspicion.

This is not a bug.  The brk syscall always returns the break value,
either the new one (on success) or the current one (on failure).

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-03 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-27 15:16 [Qemu-devel] ARM brk bug Bernhard M. Wiedemann
2012-02-27 15:32 ` Peter Maydell
2012-02-27 17:03   ` Bernhard M. Wiedemann
2012-02-27 17:04     ` Peter Maydell
2012-03-02 17:49 ` Peter Maydell
2012-03-03  1:42   ` Alexander Graf
2012-03-03 21:02   ` Alexander Graf
2012-03-03 21:05     ` Alexander Graf
2012-03-03 21:17     ` Paul Brook
2012-03-03 22:08       ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2012-03-03 21:23     ` malc

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