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From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Design idea for subarchs/abivariants
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:26:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121128192618.GA7491@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)

The problem: how to have subarch variants on the bits headers and asm
for a given arch without ugly build system complications or massive
duplication of files.

Proposed solution:

1. $(ARCH)$(SUBARCH)/%.s is searched in addition to $(ARCH)/%.s for
arch-specific files replacing general %.c files in the src tree. This
would allow src/fenv/arm-hf/%.s and src/setjmp/mips-sf/%.s files, for
example.

2. Making bits/endian.h, bits/fenv.h, and any other bits headers that
need to vary per-subarch into generated headers. I think this could be
accomplished with a single rule for generating bits/%.h from
bits/%.h.sh the way alltypes.h is generated now. The full
$(ARCH)$(ENDIAN)$(SUBARCH) could be passed to the script as $1,
allowing simple shell logic to choose the right version to output.

3. Having configure derive separate $(ARCH), $(ENDIAN), and $(SUBARCH)
from the gcc-style machine strings or combined musl-format arch string.

This sounds like it will be minimally invasive and meet the
requirements for supporting subarch/abi-variants.

Comments?

Rich


             reply	other threads:[~2012-11-28 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-28 19:26 Rich Felker [this message]
2012-11-28 20:03 ` Isaac Dunham
2012-11-28 21:50   ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-11-28 23:57   ` Rich Felker
2012-11-28 20:26 ` John Spencer
2012-11-28 22:38 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-11-29  0:10   ` Rich Felker
2012-11-29  0:22     ` Kurt H Maier
2012-11-29  1:21       ` Rich Felker
2012-11-29  8:03       ` Szabolcs Nagy

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