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Re: Possibly wrong address passed to callq asm instruction within MPIR test binaries
- From: Jean-Pierre Flori <jpflori at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 09:51:38 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Possibly wrong address passed to callq asm instruction within MPIR test binaries
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Le Mon, 07 Apr 2014 11:39:32 +0200, Corinna Vinschen a ÃcritÂ:
> On Apr 7 09:14, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote:
>> Le Mon, 07 Apr 2014 10:43:12 +0200, Corinna Vinschen a ÃcritÂ:
>> > On Apr 6 20:20, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote:
>> >> Looking at the exes produced (.libs/t-neg.exe) gives with the
>> >> dllimport magic:
>> >> 100401115: 48 89 c1 mov %rax,%rcx 100401118:
>> >> 48 8b 05 f1 71 00 00 mov 0x71f1(%rip),%rax #
>> >> 100408310 <__imp___gmpn_store>
>> >> 10040111f: ff d0 callq *%rax
>> >> Without it:
>> >> 100401111: 48 89 c1 mov %rax,%rcx 100401114:
>> >> e8 f7 71 00 00 callq 100408310
>> >> <__imp___gmpn_store>
>> >
>> > This is ok. Look closely at the address after the callq. It's the
>> > start address of the executable (0x1:00400000) plus an offset. If
>> > you disassemble the executable you will find a jmp statement at this
>> > address. This is the trampoline code which is automatically
>> > generated for external references if they are not marked with
>> > dllimport.
>> >
>> > The problem at this point is that I can't reproduce your issue with a
>> > simple example. Here's the example:
>> >
>> > ==== SNIP ====
>> > $ cat > lib.c <<EOF #include <stdio.h>
>> >
>> > int foo (int a)
>> > {
>> > printf ("a = %d\n", a);
>> > return a;
>> > }
>> > EOF $ cat > app.c <<EOF #include <stdio.h>
>> >
>> > extern int foo (int);
>> >
>> > int main ()
>> > {
>> > int x = foo (42); printf ("x = %d\n", x);
>> > return 0;
>> > }
>> > EOF $ gcc -g -shared -o lib.dll lib.c $ gcc -g -o app app.c lib.dll $
>> > ./app a = 42 x = 42 ==== SNAP ====
>> >
>> > Let's have a look into the executable:
>> >
>> > $ objdump -d app.exe [...]
>> > 00000001004010d0 <main>:
>> > 1004010d0: 55 push %rbp 1004010d1: 48
>> > 89 e5 mov %rsp,%rbp 1004010d4: 48 83 ec 30
>> > sub $0x30,%rsp 1004010d8: e8 93 00 00 00 callq
>> > 100401170 <__main>
>> > 1004010dd: b9 2a 00 00 00 mov $0x2a,%ecx 1004010e2:
>> > e8 59 06 00 00 callq 100401740 <foo>
>> > 1004010e7: 89 45 fc mov %eax,-0x4(%rbp)
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > So the call to foo is a call to address 1:00401740. Let's have a
>> > look what is at that address:
>> >
>> > 0000000100401740 <foo>:
>> > 100401740: ff 25 1a 5a 00 00 jmpq *0x5a1a(%rip) #
>> > 100407160 <__imp_foo>
>> >
>> > Address 100407160 is somewhere within the IAT which gets relocated at
>> > runtime.
>> For most functions I indeed see this trampoline trick within the
>> binary.
>> >
>> > This is exactly as it's supposed to be.
>> >
>> > Now, here's the question: Where is your problem different? What
>> > exactly makes your code fail? Can you construct your problem from my
>> > simple testcase, or can you construct an equally simple testcase
>> > which fails?
>> Looking a little further, it seems the problematic functions are those
>> directly assembled from assembly code.
>> That was the case of mpn_store on x86_64.
>
> Just for clarity: mpn_store is an assembler function calling an
> external C function, right?
>
Nope, mpn_store is an assembler function indeed, but it's the call to
this function which fails (which a callq which indeed seems to call it
from the external library but that code was generated by gcc).
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