Refactor strtod parsing of NaN payloads

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Tue Nov 24 14:04:00 GMT 2015


On Tue, 24 Nov 2015, Florian Weimer wrote:

> > The point of this refactoring is so that a future change can call these 
> > (libc) functions from the nan* functions in libm.  I don't think 
> > internal_function is compatible with PLT calls from other libraries.
> 
> internal_function is a bit of a misnomer, it just affects the calling
> convention on some architectures.  Unlike attribute_hidden, it does not
> interfere with linking, as long as the caller uses the same prototype
> (with the internal_function attribute).

But is that calling convention change compatible with calling through the 
PLT?

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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