From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4177 invoked by alias); 15 Nov 2011 17:50:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 4166 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Nov 2011 17:50:34 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:49:50 +0000 Received: from nat-ies.mentorg.com ([192.94.31.2] helo=EU1-MAIL.mgc.mentorg.com) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1RQN8n-0002PR-Ui from joseph_myers@mentor.com ; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:49:50 -0800 Received: from digraph.polyomino.org.uk ([172.16.63.104]) by EU1-MAIL.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:49:47 +0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.74) (envelope-from ) id 1RQN8l-0002eA-7j; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:49:47 +0000 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:50:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" To: Richard Earnshaw cc: Arnd Bergmann , "libc-ports@sourceware.org" , Catalin Marinas Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/10] Tilera (and Linux asm-generic) support for glibc In-Reply-To: <4EC2A4A5.2080008@arm.com> Message-ID: References: <201111100054.pAA0sf6u025585@farm-0002.internal.tilera.com> <201111142216.54543.arnd@arndb.de> <6684568.qf2fzy7upl@wuerfel> <4EC2A4A5.2080008@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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: 2011-11/txt/msg00055.txt.bz2 On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Richard Earnshaw wrote: > It's easy enough to produce a generic linker/librarian/objdump; but much > harder for things like the assembler. For the compiler the overlap is Yes, the assembler hasn't even started on having a target vector abstraction at all; it's all still macros and magic function / variable names. (Although a complete conversion of the assembler could well end up a smaller project than finishing the target hook conversion in GCC, since the assembler is so much smaller and simpler.) -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com