Regression caused by future merge utent.c, wtent.c: move functions from utxent.c

Peter Mazinger ps.m at gmx.net
Thu Sep 13 08:40:53 UTC 2012


Hello Khem,

no idea at the moment, I can't see anything wrong with this change. Please send me you config. Which version of toolchain (gcc/binutils) are you using and which arch fails?

Thanks, Peter

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:39:02 -0700
> Von: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
> An: uclibc at uclibc.org, rep.dot.nop at gmail.com, ps.m at gmx.net
> Betreff: Regression caused by future merge utent.c, wtent.c: move functions from utxent.c

> 
> Hi Peter/Bernhard
> 
> We have a regression on master which is that systemd does not boot the
> system anymore
> whereas it works fine with 0.9.33 branch so I did not bisecting and this
> boiled down
> to below commit. If I revert that then everything is working again. Please
> take a look
> what could be wrong here. The commit comment "The smaller size on utent.os
> is unexpected, could be due to better inlining/not inlining"
> does not effuse lot of confidence in this patch. I would ask to revert
> this commit if
> there is no easy resolution.
> 
> commit 84135275cfeebc0b233c1c96eeada4d4178a0b18
> Author: Peter S. Mazinger <ps.m at gmx.net>
> Date:   Tue Mar 15 15:29:14 2011 +0100
> 
>     utent.c, wtent.c: move functions from utxent.c
>     
>     before the change (threads enabled)
>        text        data     bss     dec     hex filename
>        1107           8     408    1523     5f3 libc/misc/utmp/utent.os
>         152           0       0     152      98 libc/misc/utmp/wtent.os
>         240           0       0     240      f0 libc/misc/utmp/utxent.os
>     after the change
>        text        data     bss     dec     hex filename
>        1072           8     408    1488     5d0 libc/misc/utmp/utent.os
>         157           0       0     157      9d libc/misc/utmp/wtent.os
>         200           0       0     200      c8 libc/misc/utmp/utxent.os
>     
>     The smaller size on utent.os is unexpected, could be due to better
> inlining/not inlining
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Peter S. Mazinger <ps.m at gmx.net>
>     Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> -- 
> -Khem


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