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Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 02:46:35 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: OMP fallback for non-systemwide build
On 7 May, 2013, at 2:28 , Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 01:30:09AM +0200, magnum wrote:
>> +#ifdef JOHN_SYSTEMWIDE_EXEC
>> #define OMP_FALLBACK_PATHNAME JOHN_SYSTEMWIDE_EXEC "/" OMP_FALLBACK_BINARY
>> execv(OMP_FALLBACK_PATHNAME, argv);
>> +#else
>> +#define OMP_FALLBACK_PATHNAME "$JOHN/" OMP_FALLBACK_BINARY
>> + execv(path_expand(OMP_FALLBACK_PATHNAME), argv);
>> +#endif
>
> What's the intended use for this? Are we (or someone) going to
> distribute binary builds that are installable into a user's home
> directory, yet want to include the fallback feature? Well, maybe.
> However, then we'd want it for CPU fallbacks too, not just OpenMP.
I think many users (including me) that build their own JtR do it non-systemwide. If OMP fallback can still be supported this easily, I think we should do it (at least in Jumbo) and write a brief how-to (this was actually the first time I ever tried the fallback stuff).
For this use, I think CPU fallback is far less important but that would be cool as well.
>> It does work like a champ. Could that relocation of path_init() pose a problem?
>
> Hopefully not, but I am not sure. We'd need to relocate it even further
> up - to before CPU_detect_or_fallback() - then enhance that function,
> and test the resulting builds.
I'll play around with that.
magnum
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