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Re: glibc - capaibility control mechanism



On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:56:03PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> TLS isn't a hwcap.  It's supported in a similar fashion, that's all.
> In practice, it is available iff your kernel is new enough, so tying it
> to the kernel version makes sense.

It is defined as a hwcap internal.

> Build a glibc which considers it a relevant capability for library
> selection.  It's just a matter of setting the bit in HWCAP_IMPORTANT. I
> don't think it's a bug that glibc does not default to searching all
> capabilities that it knows about.  That would be horrendously slow.

ldconfig does this if it is unmasked with LD_HWCAP_MASK, but ld.so does
not respect it.

Bastian

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