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Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210120074815.k6km6cmhrt4aknpo@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: libc-help@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Libc-help mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:17:43 -0000 On 20/01/2021 04:48, Fangrui Song wrote: > Greetings, I will give a lightning talk in a small meetup on some GNU > toolchain projects and I am writing notes:) > > Here is that I have now for glibc. Happy to see more points from you experts:) > > > ## glibc > > Repository: > Wiki: > Bugzilla: > Mailing lists: `{libc-announce,libc-alpha,libc-locale,libc-stable,libc-help}@sourceware.org` > > A very unfortunate fact: glibc can only be built with `-O2`, not `-O0` or `-O1`. > If you want to have an un-optimized debug build, deleting an object file and recompiling it with `-g` usually works. > Another workaround is `#pragma GCC optimize ("O0")`. Unfortunately this trick might still fail depending whether the routine is also used on loader, although for library code it does help. > > The `-O2` issue is probably related to (1) expected inlining and (2) avoiding dynamic relocations. Yes and I started to take a look if it would be possible. I could build a un-optimized libc.so, but it still fails at runtime for some reason. I think a better way would be to try to simplify the bootstrap and document the requirements of the function call and arch-specific code. The idea is to move all the required bootstrap code to maybe a single file and just build it in an optimized manner. As static-pie and ifunc has show, the bootstrap code is still somewhat complex. > > Run the following commands to populate `/tmp/glibc-many` with toolchains. > Caution: please make sure the target file system has tens of gigabytes. > > Preparation: > ```sh > scripts/build-many-glibcs.py /tmp/glibc-many checkout > scripts/build-many-glibcs.py /tmp/glibc-many host-libraries > > scripts/build-many-glibcs.py /tmp/glibc-many compilers aarch64-linux-gnu > scripts/build-many-glibcs.py /tmp/glibc-many compilers powerpc64le-linux-gnu > scripts/build-many-glibcs.py /tmp/glibc-many compilers sparc64-linux-gnu > ``` > You might want to use the '--shallow' option on checkout to minimize both the disk and network usage (since at principle you won't need to full git history) and the --strip on compiler option. > The `glibcs` command will delete the glibc build directory, build glibc, and run `make check`. If you want all the build directories to further inspection you might use '--keep all' option on either compilers or glibcs command. > > ```sh > scripts/build-many-glibcs.py /tmp/glibc-many glibcs aarch64-linux-gnu > # Find the logs and test results under /tmp/glibc-many/logs/glibcs/aarch64-linux-gnu/ > > scripts/build-many-glibcs.py /tmp/glibc-many glibcs powerpc64le-linux-gnu > > scripts/build-many-glibcs.py /tmp/glibc-many glibcs sparc64-linux-gnu > ``` > > During development, some interesting targets: > > ((((((It'd be nice to list more targets here)))))))) > ```sh > make -C Debug lib  # meaning? > make -C Debug objs  # meaning? > make -C Debug others  # meaning? > make -C Debug check-abi > ```