On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Alexander Ivchenko <aivch...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2014-08-15 21:32 GMT+04:00 enh <e...@google.com>: >> can you file bugs against bionic for stuff like this? use >> b.android.com (and feel free to mail me to ensure that they get >> noticed). > > Sure, I will do that. > >> one thing we'd like to do is get to a point where we're building >> gcc/gdb et cetera without any local hacks, and when we've got to that >> point, we're going to have to go through anything that made it >> upstream to check that that's sane. (the weird "-shared implies >> -Bsymbolic" GCC hack springs to mind.) > > There are more of those hacks for sure (actually "shared implies > -Bsymbolic" is in gcc trunk, so it is not a local hack (Although, it > doesn't neceseraly mean that it doesn't have to be changed.
yeah, this is the kind of thing that worries me most: where bad ideas have been upstreamed, so now not only do we need to remove them from Android's copy, we need to get them out of upstream GCC too. > But there > are certanly other things that are local and have to be upstreamed). > From our side we are trying to upstream things first and then, if > neccessary, to port them to ndk. > > --Alexander
