Re: Memory corruption due to word sharing

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On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 13:09 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Michael Matz <matz@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:41:05 +0100 (CET)
> 
> > One problem is that it's not a new problem, GCC emitted similar code since 
> > about forever, and still they turned up only now (well, probably because 
> > ia64 is dead, but sparc64 should have similar problems). 
> 
> Indeed, on sparc64 it does do the silly 64-bit access too:
> 
> wrong:
>         ldx     [%o0+8], %g2
>         sethi   %hi(2147483648), %g1
>         or      %g2, %g1, %g1
>         jmp     %o7+8
>          stx    %g1, [%o0+8]

Ditto for powerpc64-linux:

        ld 9,8(3)
        li 10,1
        rldimi 9,10,31,32
        std 9,8(3)
        blr


Peter



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