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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: "Ryan S. Arnold" <ryan.arnold@gmail.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, libc-ports@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Include hwcap as ifunc argument
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FCD333E.3090107@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAKybw_qMks+2nP=mR6=og9H3AphS50UfcOZ5OauTivE98B3Pw@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/04/2012 02:21 PM, Ryan S. Arnold wrote:
> Peter Bergner reminded me today that on PowerPC the IFUNC resolver
> will most likely/often use the value in AT_PLATFORM rather than
> AT_HWCAP to determine which optimized function to use.  I suppose this
> would diminish the necessity of passing the hwcap to the ifunc
> resolver.

It depends on what's being tested, I suppose.

Within glibc itself you've got lots of platform-specific tuning, so 
you may well use AT_PLATFORM more.

Outside glibc, it might just be a test for Altivec or VDX or whatever.


r~

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-04 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4FBA744A.6000702@twiddle.net>
2012-05-24 14:40 ` [ppc] " Richard Henderson
2012-05-24 14:45   ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-05-24 19:47   ` David Miller
2012-05-25 17:44 ` Richard Henderson
2012-06-04 21:22   ` Ryan S. Arnold
2012-06-04 22:14     ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2012-06-08 14:01       ` Andreas Krebbel
2012-06-08 14:49         ` Richard Henderson

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