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Re: Avoid GCC 4.7 optimization in elf/soinit.c

From: Richard Guenther <rguenther at suse dot de>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at gmail dot com>
Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com,Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 12:41:17 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: Avoid GCC 4.7 optimization in elf/soinit.c
References: <201109271347.20108.aj@suse.de> <CAOPLpQc63+hmxbJi_ZVLWzgw+NAoDt6-s=5ZJU0uOpXdw05ZyA@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.LNX.2.00.1111020947170.26779@zhemvz.fhfr.qr> <CAOPLpQffusZvtQ_-YgyyPUgY+0CnW6KQnh-vuC_rvRpVUEY_qQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 04:47, Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> wrote:
> > It's for backward compatibility, to be able to run old binaries.
> 
> No, it's not.  soinit and sofini are only used when building glibc. If
> a new gcc then glibc should be able to use init_arrays.  If not,
> *that's* what has to be changed.

As it seems to be tied to binutils support it doesn't look like a good
solution to keep the code unfixed.

Richard.

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Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>
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