From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12618 invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2017 12:32:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 10813 invoked by uid 89); 24 Aug 2017 12:32:13 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_RED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 12:32:00 -0000 From: Joseph Myers To: Steve Ellcey CC: Subject: Re: Obsolete matherr, _LIB_VERSION, libieee.a In-Reply-To: <1503519708.28672.77.camel@cavium.com> Message-ID: References: <1503519708.28672.77.camel@cavium.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" 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: 2017-08/txt/msg01134.txt.bz2 On Wed, 23 Aug 2017, Steve Ellcey wrote: > I actually have a similar problem with tst-mallocstate and the > malloc_get_state symbol. Currently I just remove that test from the makefile > in order to skip it and I guess I can do the same for this test but we > will need a solution to this problem at some point and I was wondering > if you had any ideas. > > Earlier discussion about tst-mallocstate: > https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-12/msg00527.html I think Florian's suggestion from that discussion is a good idea: generate a makefile equivalent of abi-versions.h, so that you can write conditionals in makefiles that are equivalent to SHLIB_COMPAT conditions in C code. Obviously this is not specific to ILP32 so should be proposed for master independent of ILP32 - it's just as useful for other new ports such as RISC-V (kernel port hopefully ready for upstream in the not too distant future) or ARC (kernel port already upstream). -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com