Re: PATCH: Check GLIBC_IFUNC to enable/disable ifunc features

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On 29 Jun 2016 19:56, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On 29 Jun 2016 11:15, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> > should have a comment or two mentioning why you need to code all of
> >> > these things ad-hoc
> >> >
> >> > also needs a manual update
> >>
> >> I am not sure if it needs manual update.  I consider it more for glibc
> >> developers than for normal end users.
> >
> > it needs documenting somewhere beyond the commit message.  i guess we
> > don't have a "hacking" page somewhere, so at least the comment in the
> > source file will have to do.
> 
> It is more than just normal "hacking".  You need to look at all multiarch
> implementations when experimenting and their behavior can change over
> time.  It is more a tool for multiarch developers.  It shouldn't be used by
> majority of end users.

"hacking" documents shouldn't be read by the majority of end users either.
throwing it in the wiki under a hacking/ifunc page sounds fine.
-mike

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