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Re: [RFC][PATCH] New configure option "--disable-ifunc"


On 05/13/2015 09:33 AM, Maria Guseva wrote:
> As I understood it was done in order to guarantee
> the tail call in non-IFUNC case. Are there any reasons for this except
> performance?


Yes.  If the return address for vfork is on the stack, it'll be corrupted and
the program will crash.


r~


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