[Lazarus] EpikTimer v1.0.1 released

Henry Vermaak henry.vermaak at gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 16:34:53 CEST 2014


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 02:53:21PM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote:
> Checking with a 64 Bit program (after overcoming the shock that with
> 64 fpc "Integer" is 32 bit =-O ):
> 
> On Kernel 3.2.0 64 bit, using a 64 Bit testing program:
>  -  I do find the vDSO ELF structure at (e.g. at 00007FFF5D2C9000,
> the location varies for any program start. This behavior is
> documented for vDSO)
>  -  it seems to provide "__vdso_clock_gettime",
> __vdso_gettimeofday", "__vdso_time", "__vdso_getcpu"
> 
> 
> but not "__kernel_sigreturn", "__kernel_rt_sigreturn" , and
> "__kernel_vsyscall"
> 
> funny....

Why do you think this is funny?  Those functions are not needed for x64,
and presumably no-one cared enough to add the time functions to x86
(until recently).

Henry




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