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Re: [PATCH] PowerPC64 ELFv2 ABI 5/6: LD_AUDIT interface changes
- From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- To: azanella at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com (Adhemerval Zanella)
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Ulrich dot Weigand at de dot ibm dot com (Ulrich Weigand)
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 19:33:53 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] PowerPC64 ELFv2 ABI 5/6: LD_AUDIT interface changes
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Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> On 12-11-2013 19:23, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > In addition, the patch contains two unrelated changes to the
> > PLT trampoline routines: it fixes a bug where FPR return values
> > were stored in the wrong place, and it removes the unnecessary
> > save/restore of CR.
>
> Is this bug user visible? Do we have a bug report for this?
Well, it would be visibile to an audit function that tries to
inspect a return value passed in an FPR ... I don't think
anybody actually ran into this, Alan found the bug while
looking over the code.
Bye,
Ulrich
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Dr. Ulrich Weigand
GNU/Linux compilers and toolchain
Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com