Am Sa., 25. Nov. 2023 um 21:19 Uhr schrieb Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>:
> Hello Marc, > > > Here is my attempt at a simple unit test for your new cache module. > > > > I have tested it on an x86 box (where the instruction cache is always in > > sync) and on an Armv8 Raspberry, both running GNU/Linux. Commenting out > > the call to `clear_cache' shows that `clear_cache' is not a NOP on Arm > and > > that the test is actually doing a non-trivial test. > > Very nice! It is simpler than what I had expected (no per-CPU #ifdefs so > far). > I am sure they will come as soon as it is tested on more platforms than just GNU/Linux with x86_64 and aarch64. The alternative would be to pull in the whole GNU lightning... I've committed your patch (as two separate patches). > > I will test it on various platforms. > > For the moment, I expect > - a SIGSEGV on powerpc*-aix, powerpc64-linux, ia64, hppa, and hppa64 > due to the structure of function pointers, see > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libffcall.git;a=blob;f=porting-tools/abis/function-pointer.txt Thank you; I will try to incorporate this info into my test. - a link error on native Windows, due to the use of mprotect() outside > #ifdefs. > Of course! I am going to fix this.
