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From: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: xuchenghua@loongson.cn, i.swmail@xen0n.name,
	libc-alpha@sourceware.org,  caiyinyu <caiyinyu@loongson.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] LoongArch: Add pointer mangling support.
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:46:37 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e34d42b3accba112af7d8a49d0c2dc4c1d9d04c2.camel@xry111.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2208171643360.417173@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

On Wed, 2022-08-17 at 16:46 +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2022, Xi Ruoyao via Libc-alpha wrote:
> 
> > I share your feeling...  But the fix needed by ld.so (bc2a35c in
> > binutils-gdb.git) is after two commits massively changing the relocation
> > types.  Backporting the relocation type changes is completely
> > unacceptable (such an attempt will do nothing except annoying Nick
> > Clifton :). And bc2a35c alone cannot be backported trivially.
> 
> If the branch isn't usable as-is on LoongArch (which apparently is the
> state at present), there should be no problem with any backport to 
> architecture-specific code, regardless of how large it is - it can't 
> exactly regress from "not usable".

Sorry, my memory was flawed when I wrote the last reply (due to my 2-
week vacation :( ).  It's not completely usable, only IFUNC is broken.

> I note that the only GCC target supported for LoongArch is 
> loongarch*-*-linux*, so there isn't really a question of being usable for 
> bare-metal either.
> 

-- 
Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University

  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-19 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-11  4:00 caiyinyu
2022-08-15 20:52 ` Joseph Myers
2022-08-16  1:30   ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-16  1:59     ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-16 15:23       ` Joseph Myers
2022-08-17  7:43         ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-17 16:46           ` Joseph Myers
2022-08-19 13:46             ` Xi Ruoyao [this message]
2022-08-21  7:25               ` caiyinyu
2022-08-18  2:25           ` caiyinyu
2022-08-16  1:28 ` Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-16  6:34   ` caiyinyu

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