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Steve Ellcey
sell...@cavium.com

On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 11:57 -0700, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-10-02 at 15:38 +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> > 
> >  
> > looks good to me, but i cannot approve.
> > 
> > (this will make libatomic depend on ifuncs on aarch64*-linux-gnu.)
> If you build GCC with default options, ifunc is enabled on aarch64
> and
> used by libatomic but if you configure with '--disable-gnu-indirect-
> function' then GCC will not recognize the 'resolver' attribute and
> libatomic will build the 'old' way and not use IFUNC's.
> 
> It seems like using '--disable-version-specific-runtime-libs' should
> allow GCC to recognize the 'resolver' attribute for IFUNCs but to not
> use them when building libatomic but when I tried that I got ifuncs
> in
> libatomic anyway.  I think that is a bug and I will look into it some
> more.
> 
> The recent alias checking improvements made to GCC and which caused
> some glibc build problems also caused the ifunc check in libatomic to
> fail.  That problem has been fixed but it involved a change to
> libatomic/ibatomic_i.h that conflicted with this patch so I am
> including an updated version that will apply cleanly to the top of
> tree.  Only libatomic_i.h changed.
> 
> Steve Ellcey
> sell...@cavium.com
> 
> 2017-10-03  Steve Ellcey  <sell...@cavium.com>
> 
>       * Makefile.am (ARCH_AARCH64_LINUX): Add IFUNC_OPTIONS and
>       libatomic_la_LIBADD.
>       * config/linux/aarch64/host-config.h: New file.
>       * configure.ac (IFUNC_RESOLVER_ARGS): Define.
>       (ARCH_AARCH64_LINUX): New conditional for IFUNC builds.
>       * configure.tgt (aarch64): Set ARCH and try_ifunc.
>       (aarch64*-*-linux*) Update config_path.
>       (aarch64*-*-linux*) Set IFUNC_RESOLVER_ARGS.
>       * libatomic_i.h (GEN_SELECTOR): Add IFUNC_RESOLVER_ARGS
> argument.
>       * Makefile.in: Regenerate.
>       * auto-config.h.in: Regenerate.
>       * configure: Regenerate.
> 

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