[RFC 0/9] Remove legacy platform bits and cleanups

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Fri Jun 7 12:18:55 GMT 2024


* Stefan Liebler:

> - "elf: Remove LD_HWCAP_MASK / tunable glibc.cpu.hwcap_mask"
> The environment variable LD_HWCAP_MASK / glibc-tunable
> glibc.cpu.hwcap_mask is not used anymore after removal in
> elf/dl-cache.c:search_cache() despite of sparc32 where it is used in
> elf_machine_matches_host().

Are you sure about that?  It is used to update GLRO(dl_hwcap), and that
_rtld_global_ro member is consulted in various places.  Its value is
also returned by getauxval (AT_HWCAP).

Thanks,
Florian



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