Re: Gcc builtin functions used by glibc not available on mips

[Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:25:54PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> In glibc, there are codes
> 
>   /* Partly clean the `bootstrap_map' structure up.  Don't use
>      `memset' since it might not be built in or inlined and we cannot
>      make function calls at this point.  Use '__builtin_memset' if we
>      know it is available.  */
> #if __GNUC_PREREQ (2, 96) 
>   __builtin_memset (bootstrap_map.l_info, '\0', sizeof (bootstrap_map.l_info));
> #else
>   for (cnt = 0;
>        cnt < sizeof (bootstrap_map.l_info) / sizeof (bootstrap_map.l_info[0]);
>        ++cnt)
>     bootstrap_map.l_info[cnt] = 0;
> #endif
> 
> used in ld.so bootstrap. The problem is even gcc 3.1 doesn't have a
> real __builtin_memset for mips. I am very reluctant to call it a gcc
> bug. Maybe we should check it during the gcc configure instead of
> depending on "#if __GNUC_PREREQ (2, 96)".

Well, I think on most arches this __builtin_memset will actually expand to
real memset, since sizeof (bootstrap_map.l_info) is more than 64 * sizeof (void *),
ie. really big. Guess just ia-32 will expand it inline.

But, memset is local symbol in ld.so, do even calls to local functions have
to go through plt or got on mips?

	Jakub