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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andreas Tobler <andreast-list@fgznet.ch>,
	GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Fix bootstrap powerpc*-*-freebsd* targets
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:49:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181218124803.GJ30978@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181218092002.GF3803@gate.crashing.org>

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 03:20:02AM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 10:39:27AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 11:05:57AM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:40:01AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> > > > Since I broke powerpc*-freebsd and the other non-linux powerpc
> > > > targets, I guess I ought to fix them.  The following is a variation on
> > > > your first patch, that results in -mcall-linux for powerpc-freebsd*
> > > > providing the 32-bit powerpc-linux dynamic linker.
> > > 
> > > That, like the first patch, abuses that header file.  Please do it
> > > somewhere sane instead, not in a random subtarget file?
> > 
> > Is there is a better place, currently?  sysv4.h contains a mess of OS
> > related defines already, to support various -mcall options.  If those
> > stay in sysv4.h I can't see a better place for the fall-back
> > GNU_USER_DYNAMIC_LINKER define.
> 
> I was hoping you would untangle it a bit.  My dastardly plan failed,
> apparently.  Drat.

Me untangling some of the linux bits was what caused the problem..

I think that -mcall-linux, -mcall-freebsd, -mcall-netbsd and
-mcall-openbsd should be deprecated.  That would make it possible to
put the OS specific defines where they belong.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-18 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-12 20:33 [patch] Fix bootstrap for non linux powerpc targets Andreas Tobler
2018-12-16 18:46 ` [patch] Fix bootstrap powerpc*-*-freebsd* targets Andreas Tobler
2018-12-17  0:10   ` Alan Modra
2018-12-17 17:06     ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-12-18  0:09       ` Alan Modra
2018-12-18  9:20         ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-12-18 12:49           ` Alan Modra [this message]
2018-12-18 16:14             ` Segher Boessenkool
2018-12-19  8:36         ` Segher Boessenkool

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