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From: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: New gcc wrapper to try
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:14:23 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120424221423.GA13817@openwall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120424221040.GS14673@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

Rich -

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 06:10:40PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 05:41:27PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > The problem is that the default gcc build incorporates glibc ABI
> > knowledge (layout of the thread structure) and the assumption that the
> > thread pointer has been initialized into any binary built with stack
> > protector. Just adding symbols will not fix anything.

I did not realize that.

> ......but since you requested it, I'm working on trying to make it
> work anyway. We'll see how it goes. Preliminary support was just
> committed.

Wow.  At this time, I suggested it as being good for the musl project
rather than requested it for my own use (although I imagine that I might
want to use it at some point), but this does not make me any less
impressed by your work on it.

Thank you!

Alexander


  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-24 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-21  6:49 Rich Felker
2012-04-21 20:37 ` Rich Felker
2012-04-23  5:57   ` Isaac Dunham
2012-04-23  9:19     ` Rich Felker
2012-04-24 19:28       ` Isaac Dunham
2012-04-24 19:45         ` Isaac Dunham
2012-04-24 21:28         ` Solar Designer
2012-04-24 21:41           ` Rich Felker
2012-04-24 22:10             ` Rich Felker
2012-04-24 22:14               ` Solar Designer [this message]
2012-04-24 23:53                 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-04-25  1:21                   ` Solar Designer
2012-04-21 22:45 ` Isaac Dunham

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