[RFC 1/2] Add IFUNC support for MIPS (v5)

[Faraz Shahbazker]

On 09/03/2015 03:09 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, Faraz Shahbazker wrote:
> 
>> glibc suite cross-tested on mips32 little endian, summary:
>>     324 FAIL
>>    1537 PASS
>>       9 XFAIL
>> All ifunc* tests are passing.
> 
> You should have far fewer than 324 FAILs.  You'll need to fix whatever the 
> problem is with your test environment, or whatever has regressed since 
> 2.22 release, in order to get meaningful results (similar to those 
> described at <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.22>, so maybe on 
> the order of 10 FAILs, but not much more).  These results don't give any 
> confidence in the patch.

I've managed to fix my test environment. I now get the same 6-7 failures listed in the release results. Will focus on the binutils patch for now, will post back a final version here when that is done. Hopefully, we'll get the ifunc prototype sorted out by then.

Thanks,
Faraz Shahbazker