Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

[Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>                                                                It allows
> to provide different versions of a given symbol using an IFUNC symbol
> type. This will be resolved by the dynamic loader during relocation
> depending on the hardware characteristics.
[...]
> Currently only x86, x86_64, ia64, powerpc and sparc are supported, but
> it should not be difficult to add support for more architectures.

 Unfortunately, this requires getting it in the ARM ABI spec first, and
 apparently that can take very long, they avoid rev-ing the ABI too
 frequently (Linaro intends to work on this later this year [1])


 [1]
 https://blueprints.launchpad.net/binutils-linaro/+spec/stt-gnu-ifunc
 and
 https://blueprints.launchpad.net/binutils-linaro/+spec/gold-stt-gnu-ifunc
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Loïc Minier