From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Steve Ellcey <sellcey@mips.com>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com>,
"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: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5107F7A7.50207@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1359407838.32571.23.camel@ubuntu-sellcey>
On 01/28/2013 01:17 PM, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> 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.
Both gcc and ld have an --enable-initfini-array configuration switch.
Both programs can autodetect the current host setting during native
builds to preserve the system setting.
I don't believe there's currently a way to force the setting on based on
a configuration triple, but it ought not be hard to add.
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-29 16:24 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
2013-01-29 16:24 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2013-01-29 19:27 ` Joseph S. Myers
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