[PATCH glibc 1/2] aarch64: add STO_AARCH64_VARIANT_PCS and DT_AARCH64_VARIANT_PCS

[Florian Weimer]

* Szabolcs Nagy:

> On 23/05/2019 12:19, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
>> STO_AARCH64_VARIANT_PCS is a non-visibility st_other flag for marking
>> symbols that reference functions that may follow a variant PCS with
>> different register usage convention from the base PCS.
>> 
>> DT_AARCH64_VARIANT_PCS is a dynamic tag that marks ELF modules that
>> have R_*_JUMP_SLOT relocations for symbols marked with
>> STO_AARCH64_VARIANT_PCS (i.e. have variant PCS calls via a PLT).
>> 
>> 2019-05-22  Szabolcs Nagy  <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
>> 
>> 	* elf/elf.h (STO_AARCH64_VARIANT_PCS): Define.
>> 	(DT_AARCH64_VARIANT_PCS): Define.
>> 
>
>
> i'd like to commit this patchset, but it modifies public elf.h
>
> i assume it is ok to commit now that the same definitions are
> in binutils.
>
> if there are no complaints i'll push the patches tomorrow.

I've already told you to use a new relocation type for this.

If you do not do this now, you *will* cause problems down the road.

Thanks,
Florian