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Re: Misaligned stack on 32-bit s390?
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>
- Cc: Andreas Krebbel <krebbel at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, stli at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 23:17:30 +0100
- Subject: Re: Misaligned stack on 32-bit s390?
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Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:05:45AM +0100, Andreas Krebbel wrote:
>> The reason probably is that the broken alignment never reaches the executable. In _start.S we
>> correct the alignment again. So it really is only a problem for code executed between the argv
>> adjustments done by ld.so and the entry point of the executable.
>
> How/why does any code get executed in that interval anyway?
It's the dynamic linker itself and the init code.
Andreas.
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