Re: [PATCH] x86: Don't randomize stack unless current->personality permits it

[Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>]

Al Boldi wrote:
> [...] > void fn() {
>
> 	long i = 9999999;
> 	double x,y;
>
> 	elapsed(1);
> 	while (i--) fn2(&x,&y);
> 	printf("%4lu ",elapsed(0));
> }

You are not initializing x and y and with -Os at least my gcc really 
uses floating point load/store operations to handle that code.

Maybe the coprocessor has a hard time normalizing certain garbage on the 
stack, but without/with randomization the data comes from other 
addresses and you're just lucky with the contents.

Does this also happens if you add a "x=0, y=0;" line to that function?

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