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Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 09:48:11 -0500
From: "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" <madvenka@...ux.microsoft.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
'Mark Rutland' <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] [RFC] Implement Trampoline File Descriptor
On 8/4/20 9:33 AM, David Laight wrote:
>>> If you look at the libffi reference patch I have included, the architecture
>>> specific changes to use trampfd just involve a single C function call to
>>> a common code function.
> No idea what libffi is, but it must surely be simpler to
> rewrite it to avoid nested function definitions.
Sorry if I wasn't clear.
libffi is a separate use case and GCC nested functions is a separate one.
libffi is not used to solve the nested function stuff.
For nested functions, GCC generates trampoline code and arranges to
place it on the stack and execute it.
I agree with your other points about nested function implementation.
Madhavan
> Or find a book from the 1960s on how to do recursive
> calls and nested functions in FORTRAN-IV.
>
> David
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