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Re: ILP32 for ARM64: testing with glibc testsuite
- From: Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana dot gcc at googlemail dot com>
- To: Yury Norov <ynorov at caviumnetworks dot com>
- Cc: Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim dot kuvyrkov at linaro dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 14:25:47 +0000
- Subject: Re: ILP32 for ARM64: testing with glibc testsuite
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- References: <1477081997-4770-1-git-send-email-ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> <20161107082359.GA19666@yury-N73SV> <20161109095650.GA22804@yury-N73SV> <AE876380-19B7-415F-AB14-21FB40189CF6@linaro.org> <20161124051539.GA5365@yury-N73SV>
Yury,
>
> elf/* tests fail only in ILP32 mode. We tracked it down to the linker
> problem that replaces accesses to TLS with direct address calculation
> if possible, and does it wrong for ilp32. This is definitely a linker
> problem, and ABI and kernel are not involved here.
That's entirely possible. Is there a bug report in binutils about this
? Are you (or anyone else you know) looking at fixing the linker ?
regards
Ramana