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Re: [PATCH] Remove support for NO_CTORS_DTORS_SECTIONS
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 16:43:56 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove support for NO_CTORS_DTORS_SECTIONS
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On Tue, 8 Oct 2019, Florian Weimer wrote:
> As far as I can tell, no architecture currently needs this. The
> build-many-glibcs.py logs I have show that the configure check for
> .ctors/.dtors sections always fails.
I don't think this was meant to be architecture-specific. It was added in
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2010-12/msg00051.html>; the relevant
linker feature appears to have been added in binutils 2.22 (which is older
than the oldest supported binutils version for building glibc).
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com