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Re: powerpc build failure with GCC mainline -fno-common change
- From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- To: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom at linux dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 14:23:57 +0100
- Subject: Re: powerpc build failure with GCC mainline -fno-common change
- References: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1911210114120.8373@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <875zjb3l1a.fsf@linux.ibm.com>
* Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho:
>> Perhaps __cache_line_size should be part of _rtld_global?
>
> Having this variable in a single place is ideal, but does it really need to
> be in the loader?
Doesn't the loader need it for its implementation of memset?
The value is determined by parsing the auxiliary vector, so seems
reasonable to do this in the loader.