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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@linaro.org>
Cc: Richard Earnshaw <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>,
	       christophe lyon St <christophe.lyon@st.com>,
	       gcc Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ARM/FDPIC v3 03/21] [ARM] FDPIC: Force FDPIC related options unless -mno-fdpic is provided
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 23:15:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181029214439.GA5994@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKdteOaSHF2JHu8jUeyEnV3t231MvREwAZe4zdDvY-f4VfFr-w@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 02:45:20PM +0100, Christophe Lyon wrote:
> Here is an updated doc proposal (that would go in patch #1, without
> changing this one):
> @item -mfdpic
> @opindex mfdpic
> Select the FDPIC ABI, which uses function descriptors to represent
> pointers to functions.  When the compiler is configured for
> @code{arm-*-uclinuxfdpiceabi} targets, this option is on by default
> and implies @option{-fPIE} if none of the PIC/PIE-related options is
> provided.  On other targets, it only enables the FDPIC-specific code
> generation features, and the user should explicitly provide the
> PIC/PIE-related options as needed.

Most other things seem to put -mno-fdpic in an @itemx and mno-fdpic in
an @opindex as well, in similar cases.

> The opposite @option{-mno-fdpic} option is useful (and required) to
> build the Linux kernel using the same toolchain as the one used to
> build the userland programs.
> 
> Is it clearer? Does it read OK?

It reads fine I think.


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-29 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-11 13:36 [ARM/FDPIC v3 00/21] FDPIC ABI for ARM Christophe Lyon
2018-10-11 13:36 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 01/21] [ARM] FDPIC: Add -mfdpic option support Christophe Lyon
2018-10-12 10:01   ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2018-10-17  8:13     ` Sandra Loosemore
2018-10-11 13:36 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 02/21] [ARM] FDPIC: Handle arm*-*-uclinuxfdpiceabi in configure scripts Christophe Lyon
2018-10-12 10:14   ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2018-10-15  8:46     ` Christophe Lyon
2018-11-09 12:31       ` Christophe Lyon
2018-10-11 13:37 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 05/21] [ARM] FDPIC: Fix __do_global_dtors_aux and frame_dummy generation Christophe Lyon
2018-10-12 11:29   ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2018-10-11 13:37 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 03/21] [ARM] FDPIC: Force FDPIC related options unless -mno-fdpic is provided Christophe Lyon
2018-10-12 10:46   ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2018-10-15 10:35     ` Christophe Lyon
2018-10-23 15:01       ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2018-10-23 15:42         ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-10-26 15:33           ` Christophe Lyon
2018-10-29 14:25             ` Christophe Lyon
2018-10-29 23:15               ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2018-10-11 13:37 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 04/21] [ARM] FDPIC: Add support for FDPIC for arm architecture Christophe Lyon
2018-10-12 11:02   ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2018-10-19 13:57     ` Christophe Lyon
2018-10-23 15:12       ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2018-10-26 16:34         ` Christophe Lyon
2018-10-26 16:41           ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2018-10-29 10:31             ` Christophe Lyon
2018-10-11 13:38 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 08/21] [ARM] FDPIC: Ensure local/global binding for function descriptors Christophe Lyon
2018-10-12 12:39   ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2018-10-11 13:38 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 06/21] [ARM] FDPIC: Add support for c++ exceptions Christophe Lyon
2018-10-12 11:54   ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2018-10-15 14:22     ` Christophe Lyon
2018-10-11 13:38 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 07/21] [ARM] FDPIC: Avoid saving/restoring r9 on stack since it is RO Christophe Lyon
2018-10-12 12:21   ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2018-10-15 14:30     ` Christophe Lyon
2018-10-11 13:39 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 10/21] [ARM] FDPIC: Implement TLS support Christophe Lyon
2018-10-11 13:39 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 11/21] [ARM] FDPIC: Add support to unwind FDPIC signal frame Christophe Lyon
2018-10-11 13:39 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 09/21] [ARM] FDPIC: Add support for taking address of nested function Christophe Lyon
2018-10-11 13:40 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 12/21] [ARM] FDPIC: Restore r9 after we call __aeabi_read_tp Christophe Lyon
2018-10-19 14:02   ` Christophe Lyon
2018-10-11 13:40 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 13/21] [ARM] FDPIC: Force LSB bit for PC in Cortex-M architecture Christophe Lyon
2018-10-11 13:41 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 15/21] [ARM][testsuite] FDPIC: Adjust scan-assembler patterns Christophe Lyon
2018-10-11 13:41 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 16/21] [ARM][testsuite] FDPIC: Skip v8-m and v6-m tests that currently produce an ICE Christophe Lyon
2018-10-11 13:41 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 14/21] [ARM][testsuite] FDPIC: Skip unsupported tests Christophe Lyon
2018-10-11 13:42 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 19/21] [ARM][testsuite] FDPIC: Enable tests on pie_enabled targets Christophe Lyon
2018-10-11 13:42 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 17/21] [ARM][testsuite] FDPIC: Skip tests that don't work in PIC mode Christophe Lyon
2018-10-11 13:42 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 18/21] [ARM][testsuite] FDPIC: Handle *-*-uclinux* Christophe Lyon
2018-10-11 13:43 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 20/21] [ARM][testsuite] FDPIC: Adjust pr43698.c to avoid clash with uclibc Christophe Lyon
2018-10-11 13:56 ` [ARM/FDPIC v3 21/21] [ARM][testsuite] FDPIC: Skip tests using architecture older than v7 Christophe Lyon

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