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Re: [PATCH 4/9] [ARC] Don't convert _DYNAMIC@ to _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_

From: Vineet Gupta <Vineet dot Gupta1 at synopsys dot com>
To: Cupertino Miranda <Cupertino dot Miranda at synopsys dot com>, Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>, Cupertino Miranda <Cupertino dot Miranda at synopsys dot com>, "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Cc: "Claudiu dot Zissulescu at synopsys dot com" <Claudiu dot Zissulescu at synopsys dot com>, "Francois dot Bedard at synopsys dot com" <Francois dot Bedard at synopsys dot com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 11:28:51 -0700
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] [ARC] Don't convert _DYNAMIC@ to _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
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On 06/06/2017 09:08 AM, Cupertino Miranda wrote:

More recently, I have been involved in porting glibc for ARC and I have
came across this "naughtiness", and suggested to clean it up, for uclibc
and glibc.

Current version of uClibc is no longer relying on it.

Indeed there is no known code construct out there which relies on the oldsemantics. Before makign this change in tools we made sure uClibc was updated tonot use this construct. So IMO it is a safe change !


-Vineet

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