From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: "H.J. Lu via llvm-dev" <llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
binutils@sourceware.org, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gnu-gabi@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] [PATCH] Add GNU_PROPERTY_1_GLIBC_2_NEEDED
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:52:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgqtljzj.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YXno4Z2Czl+3nC2i@gmail.com> (H. J. Lu via llvm-dev's message of "Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:03:45 -0700")
* H. J. Lu via llvm-dev:
> 1. Some binaries which require new ELF features, like DT_RELR, only
> work with the new glibc binary. They crash at run-time with the older
> glibc binaries.
> 2. Somes binaries compiled with the new language features, like C2X
> printf specifiers, only generate correct results with the new glibc
> binary. Since we don't add new glibc versions to the printf function
> family, they generate incorrect results at run-time with the older
> glibc binaries.
Solaris uses SHT_SUNW_verneed sections for this, not a property note.
Property notes seem the wrong approach for this. And there is no reason
to make this specific to glibc.
However, I still very much dislike this proposal.
Thanks,
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-28 6:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-28 0:03 H.J. Lu
2021-10-28 6:52 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-10-28 13:39 ` [llvm-dev] " H.J. Lu
2021-10-28 13:43 ` Florian Weimer
2021-10-28 13:46 ` H.J. Lu
2021-10-28 17:43 ` Joseph Myers
2021-10-28 19:08 ` H.J. Lu
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