RFC: The CPU run-time library for C

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 03/12/18 11:16 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> 1. Install libcpu-rt-c binary from their OS vendors if available.

I'm curious to know what OS vendors think of this.  AFAICT, it's not too 
different from shipping an alternate glibc and in some ways, the latter 
might just be easier than munging scripts to build a separate library.

Also, if the same ABI guarantees are expected of this new library, then 
again would OS vendors prefer to ship a whole new library or would they 
be better off just backporting these new routines?

Basically, this doesn't make sense if OS vendors aren't going to ship 
it.  Building in this complexity just to make a downloadable binary in 
some arbitrary place sounds like an ugly hack that will come to bite us 
later.

Siddhesh