From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18854 invoked by alias); 3 Aug 2012 17:04:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 18830 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Aug 2012 17:04:34 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from cheddar.halon.org.uk (HELO cheddar.halon.org.uk) (217.10.144.130) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:04:10 +0000 Received: from bsmtp by cheddar.halon.org.uk with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SxLIF-0007Nm-AZ; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:04:07 +0100 Received: from stemci01 by e102122-lin with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SxLHO-0000V5-O0; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:03:14 +0100 Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:04:00 -0000 From: Steve McIntyre To: "Joseph S. Myers" Cc: Roland McGrath , libc-alpha@sourceware.org, libc-ports@sourceware.org Subject: Re: ARM hard-float ABI: add ldconfig flag value Message-ID: <20120803170314.GP24537@linaro.org> References: <20120727160941.GA13597@linaro.org> <20120802165658.GG24537@linaro.org> <20120802172843.AC5092C0DF@topped-with-meat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-attached: unknown User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact libc-ports-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-ports-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00030.txt.bz2 On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 08:50:41PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: >On Thu, 2 Aug 2012, Roland McGrath wrote: > >> libc-ports@sourceware.org is the right list for discussing ARM. > >Only for ports patches; the original posting was a patch to a libc file >(sysdeps/generic/ldconfig.h). It could have done with more background >explanation of what these flag values are and how they are used, OK, I assumed possibly more knowledge of that area than was fair. :-) >and whether and why they do need to be in a single global place >rather than each architecture having its own definitions in sysdeps. Pass, this is just existing code where I'm trying to follow existing conventions. The ldconfig cache code covers variations for a number of architectures, for example. Cheers, -- Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre@linaro.org Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs