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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 09:18:35 +0200
From: Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@...ia.fr>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] use weak symbols for the POSIX functions
 that will be used by C threads

Am Samstag, den 30.08.2014, 20:17 -0400 schrieb Rich Felker:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 08:46:49PM +0200, Jens Gustedt wrote:
> > diff --git a/src/mman/mprotect.c b/src/mman/mprotect.c
> > index f488486..535787b 100644
> > --- a/src/mman/mprotect.c
> > +++ b/src/mman/mprotect.c
> > @@ -2,10 +2,12 @@
> >  #include "libc.h"
> >  #include "syscall.h"
> >  
> > -int mprotect(void *addr, size_t len, int prot)
> > +int __mprotect(void *addr, size_t len, int prot)
> >  {
> >  	size_t start, end;
> >  	start = (size_t)addr & -PAGE_SIZE;
> >  	end = (size_t)((char *)addr + len + PAGE_SIZE-1) & -PAGE_SIZE;
> >  	return syscall(SYS_mprotect, start, end-start, prot);
> >  }
> > +
> > +weak_alias(__mprotect, mprotect);
> 
> I'll go ahead and eliminate this one from pthread_create.c like I had
> mentioned so we can omit it. Doing so should be a size reduction too,
> both locally (syscall is generally cheaper than function call) and for
> static linking (since mprotect.o won't get pulled in).

Ok, I'll drop that part then. Please drop me a line when you did,
because I'd have to rebase 7/8 and 8/8 on top of that.

Jens

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