/* * Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 * The President and Fellows of Harvard College. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors * may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software * without specific prior written permission. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE UNIVERSITY AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE * ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE UNIVERSITY OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF * SUCH DAMAGE. */ #include #include /* * C standard function: exit process. */ void exit(int code) { /* * In a more complicated libc, this would call functions registered * with atexit() before calling the syscall to actually exit. */ _exit(code); } /* * The mips gcc we were using in 2001, and probably other versions as * well, knows more than is healthy: it knows without being told that * exit and _exit don't return. * * This causes it to make foolish optimizations that cause broken * things to happen if _exit *does* return, as it does in the base * system (because it's unimplemented) and may also do if someone has * a bug. * * The way it works is that if _exit returns, execution falls into * whatever happens to come after exit(), with the registers set up in * such a way that when *that* function returns it actually ends up * calling itself again. This causes weird things to happen. * * This function has no purpose except to trap that * circumstance. Looping doing nothing is not entirely optimal, but * there's not much we *can* do, and it's better than jumping around * wildly as would happen if this function were removed. * * If you change this to loop calling _exit(), gcc "helpfully" * optimizes the loop away and the behavior reverts to that previously * described. */ void __exit_hack(void); /* avoid gcc warning */ void __exit_hack(void) { volatile int blah = 1; while (blah) {} }