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From: Steve Ellcey <sellcey@mips.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	       "libc-alpha@sourceware.org"	<libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	       "libc-ports@sourceware.org"	<libc-ports@sourceware.org>,
	       Chung-Lin Tang <cltang@codesourcery.com>,
	<rdsandiford@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MIPS16: MIPS16 support proper
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1359407838.32571.23.camel@ubuntu-sellcey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1301282042020.4409@tp.orcam.me.uk>

On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 21:06 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Richard Henderson wrote:
> 
> > And of course as you note elsewhere, this is an excellent time to
> > have new toolchains stop using .init, as DT_INIT_ARRAY has none of
> > these problems.
> 
>  Given the above I think we need it sooner rather than later.  Who's got 
> the power to make it happen?
> 
>   Maciej

Would switching from .init to DT_INIT_ARRAY be an incompatible ABI
change?  I think I remember the GNU linker can handle mixing both types
of sections in one executable but I am not sure if that is right.

I added Richard Sandiford to this email in case he hasn't seen it on the
libc mailing lists.

Steve Ellcey
sellcey@mips.com


  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-28 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-23  4:41 [PATCH 0/2] MIPS16: MIPS16 support Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-23  4:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] MIPS16: Allocate GLIBC_2.18 Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-23  4:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] MIPS16: MIPS16 support proper Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-23 17:22   ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-01-24 10:10     ` Chung-Lin Tang
2013-01-24 13:13       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-24 13:56         ` Richard Sandiford
2013-02-20 16:19     ` [PATCH v2] MIPS: MIPS16 support Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-02-20 16:29       ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27  1:38         ` [PATCH v3] " Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-02-27 17:50           ` Joseph S. Myers
2013-02-27 23:54             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-24 18:08   ` [PATCH 2/2] MIPS16: MIPS16 support proper Ellcey, Steve
2013-01-25  5:14     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-25 13:59       ` Richard Sandiford
2013-01-28 22:18         ` Steve Ellcey
2013-01-25 22:10       ` Steve Ellcey
2013-01-26  0:32         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-28 17:36           ` Steve Ellcey
2013-01-28 17:56             ` Steve Ellcey
2013-01-28 21:08               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-28 18:58             ` Richard Henderson
2013-01-28 21:06               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-01-28 21:17                 ` Steve Ellcey [this message]
2013-01-29 16:24                   ` Richard Henderson
2013-01-29 19:27                     ` Joseph S. Myers

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