On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 03:53:43PM +0100, Jan Hubicka wrote: > > Sounds perfectly fine to me, but how many tests will need changing? Is > > it only those that use symbol versioning directly? > > There are no tests presently, I plan to write some so those will get > dg-require-symver. > > .symver is output only if you use explicit symver function/variable > attribute. So the "only" downdisde of this is that instead of getting > friendly error message from GCC that your target does not support > symvers (because we can not easily check for it) you will get less > friendly error message from assembler. I hope that is acceptale since > we have pre-existing situations like that already.
Ah, I thought this would happen for various things from libc as well, so there would be a lot of random fallout. I probably misunderstood :-) Segher