[PATCH] Define TARGET_LIBC_PROVIDES_SSP for targets using glibc, use TLS access sequences on i386/x86_64/ppc/ppc64

Andrew Pinski pinskia@physics.uc.edu
Mon Jun 27 03:04:00 GMT 2005


On Jun 26, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Richard Henderson wrote:
>> Only after it's released,
> As said above, there is no need to support the new interfaces right the
> second the changes hit the gcc cvs archive.  If anything, developers 
> are
> even more reluctent to update to a new major gcc version than they are
> updating glibc (there are still tons of programs which still don't
> compile with gcc 4.0).  So the chances are good that by the time that
> gcc version is available a reasonably new glibc is in use as well.  And
> the packagers can ensure this by adding appropriate dependencies if
> necessary.

I would actually disagree with that because people can build new 
compilers
without depending on it fully and only for the new code they compile, 
unlike
glibc.  Also what about the *BSD's and other targets which don't
depend on glibc?

-- Pinski



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