From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 94178 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2016 16:31:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gnu-gabi-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: Sender: gnu-gabi-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 94164 invoked by uid 89); 14 Oct 2016 16:31:43 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Checked: by ClamAV 0.99.2 on sourceware.org X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_RED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=patent, program's X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_RED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on sourceware.org X-Spam-Level: X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0000 From: Joseph Myers X-X-Sender: jsm28@digraph.polyomino.org.uk To: Suprateeka R Hegde CC: "Jose E. Marchesi" , "H.J. Lu" , Subject: Re: RFC: Program Properties In-Reply-To: <836079bc-1309-146c-889e-7ceec926d1ad@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <62be87c7-53c1-b4f4-4ad3-57683464ffdd@gmail.com> <87lgxspjho.fsf@oracle.com> <87lgxsnmtl.fsf@oracle.com> <836079bc-1309-146c-889e-7ceec926d1ad@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Originating-IP: [137.202.0.87] X-ClientProxiedBy: svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) To svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) X-SW-Source: 2016-q4/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 On Fri, 14 Oct 2016, Suprateeka R Hegde wrote: > And then propagate this to archive libraries too. For instance, allow an > archive library to contain two foo.o files one built with minimum ISA-1 and > another built with minimum ISA-2. And depending on the main program's minimum > ISA, let the linker pick the right one. Note that I've heard reports that there may be an ARM patent on linker library selection based on object file properties, but don't know the details. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com