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Re: [PATCH] BZ #19590: Fixed build of shared objects that use libmvec.so functions
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Andrew Senkevich <andrew dot n dot senkevich at gmail dot com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:33:41 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] BZ #19590: Fixed build of shared objects that use libmvec.so functions
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On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >> I don't think we should put a GCC bug workaround in glibc. It should
> >> be fixed or worked around it in GCC.
> >
> > Since GCC 4.9 vector function name is formed based on asm declaration
> > name, to support that GCC versions we need to have such workaround.
> >
>
> So it is the part of ABI, isn't it?
It is deliberately only part of the static library ABI, not part of the
shared library ABI, because the shared libraries should not need more than
one internal-namespace exported name for the same interface (and it's a
compiler limitation that the other name exists at all).
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com