[RFC] ifunc suck, use ufunc.

[Ondřej Bílka]

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 03:43:23AM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> * Ond??ej B?lka <neleai@seznam.cz> [2015-05-24 23:38:58 +0200]:
> > A main benefit would be interlibrary constant folding. Why waste cycles
> > on reinitializing constant, just save it to ufunc structure. Resolver 
> > then could precompute tables to improve speed.
> > 
> > As interposing these you would need to interpose resolver.
> > 
> > An gcc support is not needed but we could get something with alternate
> > calling convention as passing resolver struct is common and could be
> > preserved for loops with tail calls.
> > 
> > A future direction could be replace plt and linker with ufunc, it would
> > require adding function string pointer to structure and calling first
> > generic resolver to select specific resolver.
> > 
> > Comments?
> > 
> 
> this makes memset non-async-signal-safe. (qoi issue)
> 
How, could you elaborate where exactly would it cause problem with
signals? And dlsym don't count, its just implementation detail.