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To: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: powerpc build failure with GCC mainline -fno-common change
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* Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho:

>> Perhaps __cache_line_size should be part of _rtld_global?
>
> Having this variable in a single place is ideal, but does it really need to
> be in the loader?

Doesn't the loader need it for its implementation of memset?

The value is determined by parsing the auxiliary vector, so seems
reasonable to do this in the loader.