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Re: [PATCH] S390: Refactor ifunc resolvers due to false debuginfo.
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Stefan Liebler <stli at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:39:20 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] S390: Refactor ifunc resolvers due to false debuginfo.
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On Mon, 13 Jun 2016, Stefan Liebler wrote:
> On 06/10/2016 06:59 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > Are the debug info issues you describe unique to S/390 because of some
> > peculiarity of how S/390, and only S/390, defines IFUNC resolvers in
> > glibc, or do they apply to any other architectures as well and so need
> > fixes there?
>
> The libc_ifunc macro in include/libc-symbols.h also uses the asm-name
> and the debug-information contains the DW_AT_linkage_name field.
Then I think the goal should be to arrange things so that as much
infrastructure as possible is shared between architectures defining IFUNC
resolvers in C code, so that they all avoid this pitfall, rather than just
fixing one architecture.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com