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Re: GNU/Linux ABI documentation ? GCC supports SSSE3 in general purpose code generation ?
- From: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: "Darryl L. Miles" <darryl-mailinglists at netbauds dot net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:28:19 +0100
- Subject: Re: GNU/Linux ABI documentation ? GCC supports SSSE3 in general purpose code generation ?
- References: <4C3B0391.6030507@netbauds.net>
> So my next question is what support is there in the various formats,
> technologies and runtime libraries to provide a backwards compatible
> solution, such that a binary from one system when put on another can
> have any hardware incompatibilities detected at the soonest opportunity,
> for example upon execution, soon after execution, during DSO loading:
You can configure GCC to default to whatever ISA you like. Unless you (the
person building GCC) specified otherwise, it will usually choose something
fairly conservative.
If you have been given a toolchain or binaries that is not suitable for you
system, then that is something you should probably take up with whoever
supplied them.
My understanding is that glibc has limited facilites for picking different set
of libraries at runtime, but will not disgnose mismatches in a graceful
fasion. Either way this is probably an assembler/linker problem rather than a
compiler problem. GNU as/ld do support thin kind of object file annotation,
though the level of support varies between targets.
Paul