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Re: Avoid GCC 4.7 optimization in elf/soinit.c
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 04:47, Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> wrote:
> > It's for backward compatibility, to be able to run old binaries.
>
> No, it's not. soinit and sofini are only used when building glibc. If
> a new gcc then glibc should be able to use init_arrays. If not,
> *that's* what has to be changed.
As it seems to be tied to binutils support it doesn't look like a good
solution to keep the code unfixed.
Richard.
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