Re: [ppc] Include hwcap as ifunc argument

[Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>]

On 05/21/2012 09:58 AM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> Aside from the x86 port, there are only two targets that have ifunc
> support in glibc mainline: ppc and arm.  It would be awesomely handy
> if we switch these targets to mirror the sparc lead in passing along
> the dl_hwcap contents as an argument to the resolver, *and* to do it
> in the same release as adding getauxval.  There are some clever things
> we can do at static link time if we know that getauxval corresponds to
> the availability of the ifunc argument.
>
> Dave, dunno if you wanna change the signature of the arg from int to
> unsigned long for 64-bit?  It just seemed prudent to do that here...
>
> I'll present a similar patch for arm shortly...

Like so.  Tested on armv7.  And a ping for the ppc patch?


r~

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