From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] auxv entries
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080915032032.GB3896@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809142127.m8ELR9eX025288@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl>
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:27:09PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Many, if not all, processor-specific ELF ABI documents have the
> following definition of auxv entries:
>
> typedef struct
> {
> int a_type;
> union {
> long a_val;
> void *a_ptr;
> void (*a_fcn)();
> } a_un;
> } auxv_t;
>
> This is not the layout that default_auxv_parse() uses though, which is
> wrong for big-endian 64-bit systems. The attached diff fixes this,
> making the assumption that a_val is "naturally" aligned.
If I remember right, this is a difference between Linux and other
systems (including Solaris). Someone here was looking at
this in context of sparc-solaris2.10... Vladimir, was it you?
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-15 3:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-14 21:27 Mark Kettenis
2008-09-15 0:28 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2008-09-15 0:34 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2008-09-15 9:21 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-09-15 20:23 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-09-15 21:14 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-09-16 3:28 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2008-09-15 3:21 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
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