[PATCH 0/6] aarch64 gas: memory management improvements

[Jan Beulich]

On 03.03.2026 13:37, Alice Carlotti wrote:
> These series is prompted by Matthieu's earlier patch series [1], and is an
> alternative to his patches 1/4 and 4/4.
> 
> Patches 1-3 are a trivial cleanup, a bug fix and a documentation fix.  I think
> these are ok to merge as they are, but I'll wait to see if there are other
> opinions first.
> 
> Patches 4-6 eliminate most of the LeakSanitizer content for AArch64 GAS, but
> are unnecessary outside that context, and startup/exit performance by around
> 10%.  These could be gated behind Alan's new BFD_ASAN macro [2].

The only input I have here is - yes, please let's use that macro.

Jan

> [1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2026-February/148342.html
> [2] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2026-March/148401.html