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RE: [PATCH 2/2] Remove ancient GCC string inlines
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco dot Dijkstra at arm dot com>
- Cc: 'GNU C Library' <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, nd <nd at arm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 20:33:11 +0000
- Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2] Remove ancient GCC string inlines
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On Thu, 17 Dec 2015, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
> Joseph Myers wrote:
> > I think the previous discussion concluded that a new ABI macro for these
> > out-of-line functions should be added to replace _STRING_ARCH_unaligned
> > for that purpose, so the patch needs revising rather than simply pinging.
>
> We should add another macro indeed, but that can be done in a different patch
> as my patch doesn't make the existing situation any worse.
But I think we need both patches before 2.23, to avoid a change to the ABI
of these functions for AArch64.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com