Re: brk randomization breaks columns

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Feb 05 2008 - 10:50:33 EST



* Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > > In my usual dither, I'm rather hoping Arjan will have a clear answer.
> >
> >
> > setarch works. If the apps come in source form they need fixing anyway (since I'd not be
> > surprised of current gcc reorders variables), if not.. we only have 2 cases,
> > the other case was the build process of emacs (which got fixed 5
> > years ago).
>
> uemacs ... broken with randomization
> colums, sss ... local programs, broken with randomization
> procinfo ... broken, randomization makes it die sooner.
> mikmod ... broken with randomization
> bsdsed ... broken with randomization
> ...
> Should I test few more?

just a quick debug question: do they all work if you start them via
setarch?

Ingo
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