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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/39] fdsets: use weak aliases instead of qe
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/39] fdsets: use weak aliases instead of qemu-tool.c/qemu-user.c |
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Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:52:37 +0100 |
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Il 15/11/2012 19:01, Stefan Weil ha scritto:
> Hi Paolo,
>
> this patch breaks QEMU on 32 and 64 bit hosts, native and with Wine.
> It's easy to reproduce the SIGSEGV crash: just add a -snapshot option.
> Obviously the critical code is executed only when this option was used.
I cannot reproduce this, so it must be an assembler or linker bug.
Can you try the alternative code that is used for Mac OS X?
Paolo
> Here is a simple command line using Wine:
>
> wine i386-softmmu/qemu-system-i386 -L pc-bios -snapshot Makefile
>
> The disk image does not matter, so I just selected QEMU's Makefile.
>
> It looks like weak symbols are not really working with MinGW
> (Blue Swirl previously pointed out that only ELF and a.out are
> officially supported).
>
> I can see in the debugger that QEMU wants to call monitor_fdset_dup_fd_find
> from qemu_close.
>
> In previous versions, this was just a dummy function returning 0.
> Now, it is the function in monitor.c, but the address does not match
> exactly, so the code addresses lines near the beginning of
> monitor_fdset_dup_fd_find which does not work of course.
>
> A trivial workaround is calling default_fdset_dup_fd_find which
> restores the old behaviour. I expect that all other weak functions
> would show the same problem if they were used.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stefan
>
>