Re: [PATCH 30/30] x32: Add x32 VDSO support

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Feb 20 2012 - 22:58:41 EST


On 02/20/2012 04:12 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> Would it make sense to remove the non-__vdso-prefixed weak symbols?
> AFAICT they are somewhere between useless (because the __vdso symbols
> are unambiguous), confusing (has anyone not read this and said "huh?"),
> and wrong (they are not interchangeable with glibc's symbols as they
> return different values).
>
> We're stuck with them on x86-64, but x32 is new and has no
> backwards-compatibility issues.
>

What about non-glibc?

-hpa


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