On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 5:54 AM Martin Liška <mli...@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> On 4/12/21 2:18 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 02:15:16PM +0200, Martin Liška wrote:
> >> The old syntax with the alias is quite ugly..
> >
> > Not that much. And users have no other option (besides inline asm
> > but that doesn't work with LTO well).
> >
> >>> so that people who don't have gcc configured against
> >>> binutils 2.35 or newer know what to do instead.
> >>
> >> ... and symver support for older binutils releases is fragile due to:
> >>
> >> Changes in 2.35:
> >>
> >> * Extend .symver directive to update visibility of the original symbol
> >> and assign one original symbol to different versioned symbols.
> >
> > That is a change that allows the new syntax.
> > The old syntax (on the as/ld side) have worked for the last 20+ years
> > just fine.
> >
> > Jakub
> >
>
> All right, so something like this?
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
GCC failed to bootstrap:
/export/gnu/import/git/sources/gcc/gcc/doc/extend.texi:3870: misplaced {
/export/gnu/import/git/sources/gcc/gcc/doc/extend.texi:3872: misplaced }
/export/gnu/import/git/sources/gcc/gcc/doc/extend.texi:3874: unknown
command `VERS'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:3396: doc/gcc.info] Error 1
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H.J.
