On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:02 PM, H.J. Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Sriraman Tallam <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for all the comments. I am attaching a new patch
>> incorporating all of the changes mentioned, mainly :
>>
>> 1) Make __cpu_indicator_init a constructor in libgcc and guard to call
>> it only once.
>
> This is unreliable and you don't need 3 symbols from libgcc. You can use
Do you mean it is unreliable because of the constructor ordering problem?
>
> static struct cpu_indicator
> {
> feature
> model
> status
> } cpu_indicator;
>
> struct cpu_indicator *
> __get_cpu_indicator ()
> {
> if cpu_indicator is uninitialized; then
> initialize cpu_indicator;
> return &cpu_indicator;
> }
>
> You can simply call __get_cpu_indicator to
> get a pointer to cpu_indicator;
>
> --
> H.J.
>
