On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 03:46:52AM +0200, Julien Oster wrote:
> Is there any macro or something as a clean way to jump to a function, instead
> of calling it? I don't want to use assembler as my modules are fairly
> portable by now.
>
> Sometime I want to _jump_ to a function instead of calling it. e.g., when
> wrapping around sys_delete_module, I like to jump to the old handler of
> sys_delete_module. The reason is, that when the module wrapping it gets
> deleten, the return from the old sys_delete_module gets into the area of the
> no longer available module (since the old sys_delete_module deletes it)...
>
> I could accomplish this with a little bit of assembler, tweaking with the
> stack and issueing a "JMP FAR" (on ix86), but that isn't portable in any
> way...
There are patches for gcc which implement tail optimization. Afaik
very recent gcc's have them implemented but most distributions ship
without such a compiler so you'd better not use that possibility. The
safer alternative is to arrange for a userprocess to do the module
unload.
Ralf
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