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DateSun, 14 May 2006 08:28:03 +0100
FromCatalin Marinas <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc4 4/6] Add kmemleak support for i386
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>[snip]
>>
>>>+static inline unsigned long arch_call_address(void *frame)
>>>+{
>>>+       return *(unsigned long *) (frame + 4);
>>
>>     return *(unsigned long *)(frame + 4);
> 
> 
> I would like to point out that a __bulitin_return_address(immediate int) 
> and __builtin_frame_address(immediate int) exist (but they can 
> unfortunately not be used with variables even though that would not pose 
> much of a problem on x86).

The code already uses __builtin_frame_address(0) and
__builtin_return_address(0) (the latter only if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is
not defined) but using these with a variable doesn't work on all
architectures (ARM being one of them, where I did the initial development).

Catalin
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