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From: Peter Bergner <bergner@linux.ibm.com>
To: Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.ibm.com>,
	GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	Javier Pello <devel@otheo.eu>,
	Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: Question regarding platform-bits in ld.so.cache
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 12:25:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <04e2eead-e8e6-4819-964a-49aaa22dfe9e@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6fadccb2-8f24-4aee-aa38-29f0f7918250@linux.ibm.com>

On 5/17/24 8:06 AM, Stefan Liebler wrote:
> NOTE: powerpc is using _dl_string_platform() also here:
> sysdeps/powerpc/hwcapinfo.c:37:  __tcb.at_platform = _dl_string_platform
> (GLRO (dl_platform));
> => Within exported symbol __parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform.
> sysdeps/powerpc/test-get_hwcap.c:123:  at_platform = _dl_string_platform
> (at_platform_string);

On powerpc, we replicate the AT_PLATFORM value (actually a unique integer
that maps to a specific AT_PLATFORM string) and our AT_HWCAP{,2,3,4} masks
in our TCB for access from our __builtin_cpu_is() and __builtin_cpu_supports()
built-in functions.


Peter


      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-05-17 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-17 13:06 Stefan Liebler
2024-05-17 13:14 ` Florian Weimer
2024-05-17 13:22   ` Stefan Liebler
2024-05-17 15:42     ` Florian Weimer
2024-05-17 17:25 ` Peter Bergner [this message]

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