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Re: [PATCH] BZ #19590: Fixed build of shared objects that use libmvec.so functions
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery 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 08:44:23 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] BZ #19590: Fixed build of shared objects that use libmvec.so functions
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> 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).
>
Let me try to understand the problem:
1. GCC should generate an alias, foo, which points to bar defined
in libmvec.so.
2. But the alias foo may be removed by GCC sometimes (LTO?).
3. As a workaround, we put an alias foo, in libmvec_nonshared.a which
points to bar defined in libmvec.so.
Am I correct?
--
H.J.