DL_HWCAP_MASK and static binaries

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 03/01/2017 04:04 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was working on getting the DL_HWCAP_MASK variable into tunables and I
> noticed that it is not available for static binaries.  We had thought of
> using DL_HWCAP_MASK to mask out HWCAP_CPUID in aarch64 for testing and
> turns out it will be ineffective on static binaries since DL_HWCAP_MASK
> is ignored.
> 
> Does anybody know why DL_HWCAP_MASK is ignored for static binaries?

I think you mean LD_HWCAP_MASK.

Static binaries should be as close to dynamic binaries as possible.

Please just fix the issue. I'm happy to review.

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Cheers,
Carlos.