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From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] split __libc_start_main.c into two files (Wasm)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:33:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171215123331.GG15263@port70.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <HE1PR0502MB3883753444B685A97C1F29D5E70B0@HE1PR0502MB3883.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com>

* Nicholas Wilson <nicholas.wilson@realvnc.com> [2017-12-15 11:34:10 +0000]:
> 
> To clarify, it's not exit() itself that's a problem. Remember we're using statically-linked syscalls, so linking in exit() introduces a dependency on SYS_exit_group/SYS_exit, which Wasm pulls in as external dependencies in the host emulation environment. It would be nice to avoid linking in syscalls that aren't actually used, especially ones like SYS_exit that are a bit ugly to emulate.
> 

why is exit ugly?
halting execution should not be complicated on whatever platform

how do you implement a_crash?
the c runtime uses that all over the place anyway so it's unlikely
that you can get away without process termination code.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-15 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-07 14:51 Nicholas Wilson
2017-12-07 17:03 ` Rich Felker
2017-12-15  4:19   ` Rich Felker
2017-12-15 11:34     ` Nicholas Wilson
2017-12-15 12:33       ` Szabolcs Nagy [this message]
2017-12-15 13:04         ` Nicholas Wilson
2017-12-15 17:23           ` Rich Felker
2017-12-15 17:43             ` Nicholas Wilson
2017-12-15 17:56               ` Rich Felker
2017-12-16 13:21                 ` Nicholas Wilson
2017-12-19  1:08                   ` Rich Felker
2017-12-19 11:04                     ` Nicholas Wilson
2017-12-19 15:27                       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2017-12-19 15:56                       ` Rich Felker
2017-12-19 17:46                         ` Nicholas Wilson
2017-12-19 17:54                           ` Alexander Monakov
2017-12-19 18:03                             ` Nicholas Wilson
2017-12-19 21:03                           ` Rich Felker

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