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Re: pthreads works, sorta - got it
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:21:11AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>Got the bug... attached is a correct patch that doesn't break anything
>AFAICT.
>
>GCC was optimising the variable access when the macro
>check_null_empty-path_errno was used, and accessing the memory area _before_
>the readcheck! The overhead of a proper function should be lower than that
>of VirtualQueryHowever, so I've made it a function. It could have the guts
>of check_null_empty_path copied into it for speed, but that's optional IMO.
>
>Wed Jun 27 23:30:00 2001 Robert Collins <rbtcollins@hotmail.com>
>
> * path.h (check_null_empty_path_errno): Convert to a function
> prototype.
> * path.cc (check_null_empty_path_errno): New function.
> (check_null_empty_path): Change from VirtualQuery to IsBadWritePtr.
> * resource.cc (getrlimit): Ditto.
> (setrlimit): Ditto.
> * thread.cc (check_valid_pointer): Ditto.
Thanks for the patch. I took it a step further. I renamed the _path
stuff to _str for consistency, and created some
check_null_invalid_struct* functions.
It has been checked in.
cgf