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Re: Marking ia64 psABI conformance (Re: PATCH: Support the .note.GNU-property section)
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:11:37PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:06:17PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:50:52AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > But it isn't safe without knowing if a .o file is ABI conforming or not.
> >
> > Correct.
> >
> > > With my proposal, the .o files generated by ABI conforming
> > > compiler will have the NT_GNU_PROPETRTY_IA_64_PRESERVE_GP set and
> > > the linker can use it to detect the possible run-time failure and
> > > issue a warning.
> >
> > All such .o files? Meaning that you'll get Intel and HP and (...)
> > to change their object file generation?
>
> Intel is ok with this. If HP wants to link against gcc generated
> .o files safely with full optimization, the answer is yes.
Intel and HP compilers are going to emit .note.GNU-property section
(look at "GNU" in it)?
Jakub