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Message-ID: <20200827223858.GS3265@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:38:58 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] cleanup/refactor pthread_arch.h,
pthread_impl.h
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 11:52:46PM +0200, Bartosz Brachaczek wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 6:43 PM Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
>
> > The attached patch series refactors fragments from pthread_arch.h to
> > reduce redundancy and allow pthread_arch.h to be included at the top
> > of pthread_impl.h, where it can be used to influence the
> > definition/layout of struct __pthread, rather than the middle of the
> > file. This makes it possible to get rid of the duplicate canary and
> > dtv members that existed just to match multiple ABIs silumtaneously.
> >
> > This involved a good deal of manual conversion/deduplication so it's
> > possible there are bugs for some archs. That's why I've posted the
> > series for review rather than just pushing. Reports of success/failure
> > (disassembly of pthread_self.o before/after probably suffice to
> > confirm no regression) would be very helpful.
> >
>
> I mechanically confirmed for all archs that with the first two patches
> applied, disassembly of pthread_self.o before/after doesn't change. The
> third patch obviously changes the offset for most archs due to change in
> sizeof struct pthread.
>
> Only other remark: ricv64's __get_tp misses the change of the variable type
> from char * to uintptr_t.
Thanks -- that's very helpful. It also raises a point that we should
probably add -Werror=int-conversion to the default CFLAGS. As far as I
can tell it only catches invalid (constraint-violation) implicit
conversions like the one you found, and does not have any
style-policing component to it.
Rich
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