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From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: <libc-ports@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH roland/arm-memcpy] ARM: Make armv7 memcpy implementations SFI-friendly
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1306182218380.3542@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130618220149.CB94E2C0E4@topped-with-meat.com>

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, Roland McGrath wrote:

> 	* sysdeps/arm/arm-features.h (ARM_BX_NINSNS): New macro.
> 	* sysdeps/arm/armv7/multiarch/memcpy_impl.S: Macroize the
> 	computed-jump dispatch sections.  Use sfi_breg throughout.
> 	[ARM_ALWAYS_BX]: Define a different version of the dispatch macros
> 	that uses bx rather than add-to-pc, and respects ARM_BX_ALIGN_LOG2.
> 	[!USE_NEON] (D_l, D_h): Use r10, r11 rather than r8, r9.
> 	(tmp2): Use r8 rather than r10.

This is OK with the comments referring to an assembler bug amended to give 
a binutils bug number (and preferably an indication of for what version it 
was fixed) to make it easier in future to tell whether the workaround can 
be removed because of a higher minimum binutils version requirement.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-18 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-18 22:01 Roland McGrath
2013-06-18 22:20 ` Joseph S. Myers [this message]
2013-06-18 22:44   ` Roland McGrath

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