[PATCH 2/2] Remove vestiges of NaCl port from ARM assembly files.

[Zack Weinberg]

On 05/12/2017 10:30 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 May 2017, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/12/2017 02:37 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>>> This semi-mechanical patch removes all uses and definitions of the
>>>> sfi_breg, sfi_pld, and sfi_sp macros from various ARM-specific
>>>> assembly files.  These were only used by NaCl.  Please read carefully,
>>>> I don't have any ARM hardware to test this patch on and I may have
>>>> screwed up my regular expressions.
>>>
>>> I did a build on an armv7l-redhat-linux-gnueabihf system, and the libc.so.6
>>> file had identical disassembly before and after the build, so I assume that
>>> this is okay.
>>
>> Yes, it's OK given that testing and the removal of the NaCl port itself.
>>
>> (There are several other defines in sysdeps/arm/nacl/arm-features.h that
>> are never defined for non-NaCl, or have constant definitions for non-NaCl
>> - ARM_ALWAYS_BX, ARM_BX_ALIGN_LOG2, ARM_NO_INDEX_REGISTER - and which
>> should probably be cleaned up as well eventually in separate patches, but
>> the sfi_* are by far the most invasive.  ARM_ASSUME_NO_IWMMXT is only
>> defined for NaCl at present, but logically could be defined for all builds
>> for ARMv6 and later (__ARM_ARCH >= 6, given GCC 4.8 or later or the
>> __ARM_ARCH emulation in sysdep.h) as iWMMXt is only on certain v5TE
>> processors.  NO_THUMB is more complicated in that only NaCl defines it in
>> arm-features.h, but some individual .S files define it as well.)
> 
> I think I would prefer to leave that work to ARM port maintainers.
> 
> I will wait until next Friday (the 19th) for objections before pushing
> these changes.

As there were no objections, these patches have now been merged to master.

zw


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