Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:10:56 +0200 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Architectures with strict alignment? Message-ID: <20071230131056.GG57756@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <20071229111204.GX57756@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <fl4c8o$vpu$1@ger.gmane.org> <47760132.5040306@pacific.net.sg> <b1fa29170712290014w780448bh8da93006a629b7b4@mail.gmail.com> <20071229111204.GX57756@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:12:04PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 12:14:11AM -0800, Kip Macy wrote:
> > Isn't it everything except x86?
> >=20
> > -Kip
> x86 has the AC bit in the eflags. The AM bit in cr0 is enabled by the
> kernel, and AC could be switched on by LD_PRELOADed shared object.
>=20
> Last time I checked, our libc caused unaligned access in the locale
> initialization code.
Out of curiosity, I wrote the following simple LD_PRELOADable shared object.
/* $Id: align.c,v 1.2 2007/12/30 13:06:32 kostik Exp $ */
#define AC "(1 << 18)"
static void
enable_AC()
{
__asm volatile("pushfl\n\t"
"orl\t$" AC ", (%%esp)\n\t"
"popfl\n" : : : "cc");
}
static void
disable_AC(void)
{
__asm volatile("pushfl\n\t"
"andl\t$~" AC ", (%%esp)\n\t"
"popfl\n" : : : "cc");
}
static void set_AC(void) __attribute__ ((constructor));
void set_AC(void)
{
enable_AC();
}
cc -O2 -shared -o align.so align.c=20
Doing
LD_PRELOAD=3D./align.so /bin/ls
results in the
[1] 12032 bus error (core dumped) LD_PRELOAD=3D./align.so /bin/ls
gdb session:
Program terminated with signal 10, Bus error.
#0 0x2816ee8d in __collate_load_tables (encoding=3D0x281c1280 "ru_RU.KOI8-=
R")
at /usr/home/kostik/work/MY/align/src/lib/libc/locale/collate.c:87
87 (void)strcat(buf, "/");
(gdb) disassemble 0x2816ee8d 0x2816ee8d+10
Dump of assembler code from 0x2816ee8d to 0x2816ee97:
0x2816ee8d <__collate_load_tables+205>: movw $0x2f,-0x1(%esi,%ecx,1)
0x2816ee94 <__collate_load_tables+212>: mov 0x8(%ebp),%eax
(half-word)0x2f =3D=3D asciz '/'
I.e., it seems that gcc does not feel too guilty generating unaligned
half-word writes on i386. :(
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