Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Feb 2022 12:31:54 -0500 | Subject | Re: Aligning tcmalloc with glibc 2.35 rseq ABI | From | Carlos O'Donell <> |
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On 2/2/22 10:01, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote: > * Mathieu Desnoyers: > >> More to the point: is ptrdiff_t the correct type here ? I think so. >> Do we want to revert the ABI and wait another 6 months before we >> bring back rseq into glibc just for this ? I'm not sure this limitation >> justifies it. >> >> So if there is a quick way to fix that before the official 2.35 release, >> I'm all for it, otherwise I cannot say that __rseq_offset being an "int" >> rather than a "ptrdiff_t" will make much real-life difference (unless >> I'm proven wrong). But we will be stuck with this quirk forever. > > I'm going to post a patch. It's fairly small.
I'll review this as glibc release manager for glibc 2.35.
We'll get this right before I cut the release.
-- Cheers, Carlos.
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