Hi Ian,
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 1:20 AM, Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
> wrote:
>> As could have been expected, the static libgo.a causes the same problem
>> with hardware capabilities on Solaris/x86 as was solved for libgo.so
>> with
>>
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2016-12/msg00726.html
>>
>> Instead of trying to pass -mclear-hwcap with -static-libgo, it was
>> deemed easier to solve both problems the same way and disable hwcaps
>> support in the assembler in the first place.
>>
>> This has already been done in libstdc++, so I've moved the corresponding
>> autoconf macro to config/hwcaps.m4 and adapted it to set HWCAP_CFLAGS
>> instead of HWCAP_FLAGS to better differntiate from HWCAP_LDFLAGS.
>> Everything else is straightforward, I believe.
>>
>> Bootstrapped without regressions on i386-pc-solaris2.1[02] with as/ld
>> (where as supports -nH) and sparc-sun-solaris2.12 with as/ld (where as
>> doesn't, or rather it's called -hwcap={1|0}), and the libgo
>> runtime/pprof failure is gone.
>>
>> Ok for mainline?
>>
>> Once approved, how should we proceed with checking? Ian, will you take
>> care of the libgo part once the rest is in?
>
> This patch is OK. Yes, please commit the config and libstdc++
> portions. Then I will commit the libgo portions to the external repo
> and mirror them in. Thanks.
done, thanks. While preparing the partial commit, I noticed that I'd
created the libgo part of the patch on top of a tree that contained a
workaround for PR go/64900.
Here's the libgo part again, this time on top of a vanilla tree.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
diff --git a/libgo/Makefile.am b/libgo/Makefile.am
--- a/libgo/Makefile.am
+++ b/libgo/Makefile.am
@@ -42,14 +42,12 @@ ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I ./config -I ../conf
AM_CFLAGS = -fexceptions -fnon-call-exceptions -fplan9-extensions \
$(SPLIT_STACK) $(WARN_CFLAGS) \
- $(STRINGOPS_FLAG) $(OSCFLAGS) \
+ $(STRINGOPS_FLAG) $(HWCAP_CFLAGS) $(OSCFLAGS) \
-I $(srcdir)/../libgcc -I $(srcdir)/../libbacktrace \
-I $(MULTIBUILDTOP)../../gcc/include
-AM_LDFLAGS = $(HWCAP_LDFLAGS)
-
if USING_SPLIT_STACK
-AM_LDFLAGS += -XCClinker $(SPLIT_STACK)
+AM_LDFLAGS = -XCClinker $(SPLIT_STACK)
endif
# Multilib support.
diff --git a/libgo/configure.ac b/libgo/configure.ac
--- a/libgo/configure.ac
+++ b/libgo/configure.ac
@@ -421,8 +421,8 @@ case "$target" in
esac
AC_SUBST(OSCFLAGS)
-dnl Check linker hardware capability support.
-GCC_CHECK_LINKER_HWCAP
+dnl Check if assembler supports disabling hardware capability support.
+GCC_CHECK_ASSEMBLER_HWCAP
dnl Use -fsplit-stack when compiling C code if available.
AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether -fsplit-stack is supported],
