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Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 17:45:32 +0300 (MSK)
From: Alexander Monakov <amonakov@...ras.ru>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: ppc soft-float regression
On Mon, 25 May 2015, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> * Alexander Monakov <amonakov@...ras.ru> [2015-05-25 16:40:46 +0300]:
> > >
> > > currently a libc call always uses less than 10K stack(*)
> > > but the guaranteed limit is not documented (16K limit is
> > > fine i guess).
> >
> > Not true: fmt_fp consumes more that LDBL_MAX_EXP bytes, which is 16384 on x86
> > and aarch64. As I recall, there's another function with >16K static stack
> > usage in the resolver, but I forget where exactly.
>
> note the /9
>
> uint32_t big[(LDBL_MANT_DIG+28)/29 + 1 // mantissa expansion
> + (LDBL_MAX_EXP+LDBL_MANT_DIG+28+8)/9]; // exponent expansion
>
> you can compile musl with -fstack-usage and analyze
> the output (i did that once on i386) and verify that
> all stack usage is <10K (some functions have vla or
> recursion where verification is harder)
>
> (the large worst-case stack users are printf, scanf,
> glob, execl, the dynamic loader does not use that much
> stack: it keeps some file names and elf header in buffers
> but it should use < 3K).
My mistake. Most likely I was misremembering. Looking at my old logs, I see
floatscan.c:decfloat and netlink.c:__netlink_enumerate, which use >8K (but
less than 16K) stack.
Alexander
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