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From: Ivan Kanakarakis <ivan.kanak@gmail.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Possible bug: MINSIGSTKSZ values
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:26:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJnvVWVXhyJG5BSpEaQioXjEnoMS98qvNqFxy7N5sjZ=rRZuyA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54694CD4.5070501@i-soft.com.cn>

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There will never be a __MUSL__ macro.
Please, see FAQ entry #2 for explanation
http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_why_is_there_no_MUSL_macro_.3F



On 17 November 2014 03:18, 黄建忠 <jianzhong.huang@i-soft.com.cn> wrote:

> Hi, Rich,
>
> If that means some opensource projects need to be modified to fit Musl,
> would you consider to add a "__MUSL__" macro?
>
> I think such a special macro will make upstream patch easy to be accepted.
>
>
> 在 11/15/14 11:18, Rich Felker 写道:
>
>  Currently musl has MINSIGSTKSZ hard-coded as 2048. This is
>> insufficient to store the ucontext_t for many archs. I'd like to keep
>> it small on archs where that's possible, but the current value might
>> not even work for modern x86 with large AVX state, etc. that needs to
>> be saved. I don't have a proposed fix yet, but I think we should
>> survey the values that are needed for different archs and either make
>> it vary per-arch, or if they're all comparable, just increase the
>> value to something that works for all archs.
>>
>> Note that the min pthread stack size is also well below the size of
>> ucontext_t for many archs, but I don't think this is a problem. If you
>> make a thread with a stack smaller than MINSIGSTKSZ+epsilon, you just
>> need to start it with all signals blocked and leave them blocked (or
>> avoid using signal handlers at all).
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
>
> --
> Huang JianZhong
>
>
>
>


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*Ivan c00kiemon5ter Kanakarakis*  >:3

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-17  1:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-15  3:18 Rich Felker
2014-11-15 20:56 ` Rich Felker
2014-11-17  1:18 ` 黄建忠
2014-11-17  1:26   ` Ivan Kanakarakis [this message]
2014-11-17  1:49     ` 黄建忠
2014-11-17  3:20   ` Rich Felker

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