On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 7:56 AM Vincent Fazio via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
wrote:

> Michael, all,
>
> Regarding:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101766
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102110
>
> If I understand correctly, since the GCC MicroBlaze targets generate ELF
> images, it would seem there's no technical reason why `__attribute__
> ((symver ...))` cannot be supported?
>
> The issue seems to be that the MicroBlaze targets in config.gcc do not
> include elfos.h
> https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/config.gcc#L2369
>
> Which defines `ASM_OUTPUT_SYMVER_DIRECTIVE`
> https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/config/elfos.h#L259
>
> Which is necessary for
> https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/varasm.cc#L6260
>
> Changing the targets to include elfos.h leads to a number of conflicts with
> the target specific header (config/microblaze/microblaze.h).
>
> Should `ASM_OUTPUT_SYMVER_DIRECTIVE` be copied into
> config/microblaze/microblaze.h or should the MicroBlaze targets and header
> be reworked to support elfos.h?
>

IMO reworked to include elfos.h. During the RTEMS port, we noticed that
some quirks on the microblaze gcc because it isn't using elfos.h. This
likely
will mean it will be updated as a side-effect of normal GCC maintenance
instead of being an odd singleton which doesn't share.

>
> I'm asking because I've seen a number of projects run into this issue (xz,
> elfutils, libfuse, libkcapi, cryptsetup).
>

And RTEMS.

--joel

>
> Thanks,
> -Vincent
>