[RS6000] ABI_V4 ifunc

Richard Earnshaw (lists) Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com
Thu Aug 25 23:23:00 GMT 2016


On 25/08/16 20:13, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:14:49AM +0100, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
>> On 24/08/16 02:55, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>>
>>>  If you make a ".gitattributes"
>>> somewhere in your tree (I have it in the gcc/ subdir), containing
>>>
>>> *.md  diff=md
>>>
>>> and then in your git config (say, in .git/config in the GCC source tree)
>>> you have
>>>
>>> [diff "md"]
>>>         xfuncname = "^\\(define.*$"
>>>
>>> then magic happens.
>>
>> Which sort of begs the question as to why nobody has proposed at least
>> the top bit for GCC's toplevel .gitattributes file.
> 
> Because it will do no good without the second part (which is more
> complicated, so anyone doing that can easily do the first part), and
> only the first part on its own does only hurt, not help.
> 
> 
> Segher
> 

I disagree.  The first part has to be in-tree (as I understand it) so
having to keep that bit separate from any patches is a real pain.  Yes
you need both parts to make it work, but if the in-tree part is just
there then it's not that hard to maintain the out-of-tree part yourself.

R.



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