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Re: Legacy _IO_* symbols and Flaot128 transition
On Fri, 29 Jun 2018, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Should they be turned into compat symbols *because* they won't be
> > installed headers (and we don't want new user code linking against them)?
> > Or is there something else to it?
>
> No, it's just a cleanup, and to clarify what's necessary for future work.
Anything not accessible from installed headers is a good candidate for
making into a compat symbol.
> I also want to add some minimal test for libnldbl_nonshared.a, and reducing
> its size helps with that. (I'm aware that on ppc64, the current toolchain
> doesn't support long double as double anymore, but I can just lie to the
> compiler and use double instead, I guess.)
It certainly appears to be supported to me (using GCC mainline, compiling
with -mlong-double-64 produces sizeof (long double) == 8 for both
powerpc64 and powerpc64le).
However, libnldbl_nonshared.a is for long double = double *with compilers
not supporting asm redirection*. Which is a case the (incorrect) patch in
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-08/msg00497.html> provides
evidence hasn't worked for a long time. So I still think there's a case
for eliminating libnldbl_nonshared.a and explicitly requiring asm
redirection support for these non-default long double variants, which it's
in practice required already (if not more generally requiring it for any
compiler using the glibc headers), as discussed in
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-03/msg00281.html>.
(The actual __nldbl_* exports from the glibc shared libraries - the
functions that get used with -mlong-double-64 given asm redirection
support - *should* be tested, via building some tests with
-mlong-double-64. The binary128 work should, as per
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-06/msg00680.html>, add tests
that are generic to different long double formats, so that it will then be
easy to build them for -mlong-double-64 for ldbl-opt configurations.)
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Joseph S. Myers
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