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Date:      Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:29:44 +1000
From:      Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Apparent i386 alloca.S bug (was: adsl/pppoe no longer connecting on 5.1)
Message-ID:  <20030612182944.A62729@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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Here's a test program for the i386 alloca() bug. Compile with -std=gnu89 (or
no -std option) and it works fine. Compile with -std=c99 or -std=c89 and it
breaks like this:

corruption: 05 should be 0xcc at offset 0
corruption: 00 should be 0xcc at offset 1
corruption: 00 should be 0xcc at offset 2
corruption: 00 should be 0xcc at offset 3

Interestingly, gcc -std=c89 on FreeBSD 4.8 doesn't trigger the bug.



#include <assert.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#define	NUMBYTES	511

static void
somefunc(int a, int b, int c, int d, int e)
{
}

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	char *s;
	int i;
	int failed;

	s = alloca(NUMBYTES);
	memset(s, 0xcc, NUMBYTES);
	somefunc(1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
	failed = 0;
	for (i = 0; i < NUMBYTES; i++) {
		if ((unsigned char)s[i] != 0xcc) {
			printf("corruption: %02x should be 0xcc at offset %d\n",
			    (unsigned char)s[i], i);
			failed = 1;
		}
	}
	exit(failed);
}

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