PATCH] x86: Rename readelflib.c

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Sat Dec 5 15:15:44 GMT 2020


On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 1:15 PM H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 1:13 PM H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 1:05 PM Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > * H. J. Lu via Libc-alpha:
> > >
> > > > Rename linux/i386/readelflib.c to linux/x86/readelflib.c and remove
> > > > x86_64/readelflib.c.  Also remove EM_IA_64 support from i386 ldconfig.
> > >
> > > I'm curious—what's the context for this change?
> >
> > It is a cleanup job while working on x86-64 ISA level support to ldconfig.
> >
> > > Do the remaining ia64 systems use an ia64 ldconfig?  (The latest CPUs
> > > no longer support i386 IIRC.)
> >
> > There is a separate, unrelated linux/ia64/readelflib.c.
>
> With this patch, you can no longer run i386 ldconfig on ia64.   I am not
> even sure if it works today.
>

Here is the patch just to rename.  I have a followup patch for ldconfig
to add ISA level check to glibc-hwcaps

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H.J.
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