From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com, Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/boot: Delete unneeded .globl _zimage_start
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:27:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200327182755.GL22482@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200327165054.67pzzjwtg3dc7hx2@google.com>
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 09:50:54AM -0700, Fangrui Song wrote:
> We aim for compatibility with GNU in many aspects to make it easier for
> people to switch over. However, just because there is a subtle behavior
> in GNU toolchain does not mean we need to emulate that behavior.
It isn't subtle. It is the explicit documented behaviour.
> With
> all due respect, there are a large quantity of legacy behaviors we don't
> want to support.
And it isn't legacy at all. It is simply the defined semantics.
It is semantics that real code relies on (and has for ages) as well.
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-27 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-25 16:42 [PATCH v2] powerpc/boot: Delete unneeded .globl _zimage_start Fangrui Song
2020-03-26 22:16 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-26 22:26 ` Fangrui Song
2020-03-27 15:24 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-27 16:50 ` Fangrui Song
2020-03-27 18:27 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2020-04-01 12:53 ` Michael Ellerman
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