On 05/26/2014 09:38 AM, Alan Modra wrote:
Background: The ELFv2 ABI requires a parameter save area only when stack is actually used to pass parameters, and since varargs are passed on the stack, unprototyped calls must pass both on the stack and in registers. OK, easy you say, !prototype_p(fun) means a parameter save area is needed. However, a prototype might not be in scope when compiling an old K&R style C function body, but this does *not* mean a parameter save area has necesasrily been allocated.
It's fine to change ABI when compiling an old-style function definition for which a prototype exists (relative to the non-prototype case). It happens on i386, too.
-- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
