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Re: [RFC][PATCH] New configure option "--disable-ifunc"
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Maria Guseva <m dot guseva at samsung dot com>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, <rth at twiddle dot net>, <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, 'Yury Gribov' <y dot gribov at samsung dot com>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 16:54:40 +0000
- Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] New configure option "--disable-ifunc"
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- References: <"013e01d08d9a$80b32b10$82198130$ at guseva"@samsung.com>
On Wed, 13 May 2015, Maria Guseva wrote:
> The proposed patch adds a new configure option in order to disable IFUNC
> usage in Glibc.
What problem is this solving? Each configure option adds to the
combinatorial explosion of poorly-tested different ways to configure
glibc, so there needs to be strong justification for adding a new option
(and increasing the minimum supported version of build tools can often be
preferred to having conditionals to support older tools, depending on how
widespread the older tools are).
If a new option is added, it needs documenting in install.texi and INSTALL
needs to be regenerated.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com