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From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, jakub@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Add elf64-sparc TLS support.
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200504112350.16480.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050411143049.2ca61b9e.davem@davemloft.net>

> We also get GC and refcounting as a side effect.

Great!

> If you now diff elf32-sparc and elf64-sparc it is clear there is a lot
> of code that can be commonized out, in a similar style to elfxx-mips.c

My wildest dream. :-)

> I intend to do that in the near future so that maintaining the sparc
> BFD backends becomes simpler.  The only really difficult difference
> between these two backends is the special reloc counting necessary to
> handle OLO10 relocations.

Ideally a Bugzilla PR should be opened to track this project, with the 
SPARC-oriented folks in the CC list, so as to avoid duplicating work.

> I've updated the TLS sparc64 testcases in the linker as well.  I only
> run the sparc64 TLS tests on platforms other than sparc-*-elf since it
> does not multiarch.  This is based upon feedback from Eric.

There are probably others (sparc-rtems now comes to mind), I'll update the 
list when I get a chance.

-- 
Eric Botcazou

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-11 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-11 21:35 David S. Miller
2005-04-11 21:54 ` Eric Botcazou [this message]
2005-04-12  2:30   ` David S. Miller
2005-04-12  4:34     ` Eric Botcazou
2005-04-12  8:54       ` Eric Botcazou
2005-04-12 20:45         ` David S. Miller
2005-04-13  3:48           ` Richard Henderson
2005-04-13  4:18             ` David S. Miller
2005-04-13  4:52               ` Richard Henderson
2005-04-13  6:12                 ` David S. Miller
2005-04-13  6:50                   ` Eric Botcazou
2005-04-13  7:06                     ` David S. Miller
2005-04-13  7:52                       ` Eric Botcazou
2005-04-13 22:34 ` Jakub Jelinek

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