Re: [Tinycc-devel] [bootstrappable] Re: wip-full-source-bootstrap: from a 357-byte `hex0' to 'hello'

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi grischka,
Hi Janneke,

On Fri, 08 Jan 2021 08:16:29 +0100
grischka <grishka@gmx.de> wrote:

> But no such thing happens in this case.  The 'ptr' in init_putv()
> comes from
> 
>          ptr = sec->data + c;
> 
> and it seems that if tcc is doing the right thing then 'c' cannot
> be misaligned, and if malloc/realloc on that system is doing the
> right thing,  then sec->data cannot be misaligned either.  So...?

How does tcc allocate dynamic memory?  I've tried to find out, but
tcc_malloc is defined to be "use_tcc_malloc", which I don't find
anywhere.  Does it use libc malloc for that ?

(With MEM_DEBUG defined, tcc_malloc_debug seems to use malloc.  But
what about without MEM_DEBUG defined ?)

If so, is libc malloc supposed to ensure alignment of allocated memory?

According to https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/malloc.3.html yes.

@Janneke: So our mes libc malloc should be aligning the stuff--but it's not
doing it.  So it's a bug in our libc.

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