Hi!

On 2022-07-14T19:39:40+0100, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 at 19:14, Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> I'm looking into building GCN, nvptx offloading libstdc++ [...]

>> While there is some experimental/incomplete/not-to-be-relied-on support
>> for PTX symbol aliases, we're currently generally running into
>> "error: alias definitions not supported in this configuration"

>>     [...]/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/tinfo.cc:55:1: error: alias definitions not supported in this configuration
>>        55 | std::type_info::__equal (const std::type_info& arg) const _GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT
>>           | ^~~
>>     make[4]: *** [Makefile:777: tinfo.lo] Error 1
>>
>> That's 'libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/tinfo.cc':
>>
>>      1 // Methods for type_info for -*- C++ -*- Run Time Type Identification.
>>     [...]
>>     39 // We can't rely on common symbols being shared between shared objects.
>>     40 bool std::type_info::
>>     41 operator== (const std::type_info& arg) const _GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT
>>     42 {
>>     43 #if __GXX_MERGED_TYPEINFO_NAMES
>>     44   return name () == arg.name ();
>>     45 #else
>>     46   /* The name() method will strip any leading '*' prefix. Therefore
>>     47      take care to look at __name rather than name() when looking for
>>     48      the "pointer" prefix.  */
>>     49   return (&arg == this)
>>     50     || (__name[0] != '*' && (__builtin_strcmp (name (), arg.name ()) == 0));
>>     51 #endif
>>     52 }
>>     53
>>     54 bool
>>     55 std::type_info::__equal (const std::type_info& arg) const _GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT
>>     56 __attribute__((alias("_ZNKSt9type_infoeqERKS_")));
>>     57 #endif
>>     [...]
>>
>> ..., so there's a manual alias from the line 55 function to the line 41
>> function (if I got that right).
>
> That's only there for backwards compatibility on ARM EABI and other
> targets that don't define __GXX_TYPEINFO_EQUALITY_INLINE==1.
>
> My suggestion would be to define that macro for the target.

Thanks, that did put me on the right track -- we shall define it this
way; indirectly.

Pushed to master branch commit 9837f62f066db532c9db6df38ccf2653d0c3a960
"nvptx: Use the usual '#define MAKE_DECL_ONE_ONLY(DECL) (DECL_WEAK (DECL) = 1)'",
see attached.


Grüße
 Thomas


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