PSARC/2010/022 Linker-editors: Symbol Capabilities

2010-02-04 Thread Rod Evans
This case was approved at PSARC Feb 3rd 2010. http://sac.sfbay/Archives/Minutes/PSARC/2010/20100203.html -- Rod Everybody to Everest! April 2010, I'll climb to Mt. Everest Base Camp as a fund raiser for The Challenged Athletes Foundation - www.everybodytoeverest.com. Visit www.everestchal

PSARC/2010/022 Linker-editors: Symbol Capabilities

2010-01-26 Thread Rainer Orth
Rod Evans writes: > The compiler engineers have also asked for a means of selecting between a > family of functions contained within the same dynamic object. Each family > member is compiled differently to use various capabilities, where these > capabilities can be provided by different systems.

PSARC/2010/022 Linker-editors: Symbol Capabilities

2010-01-26 Thread Rod Evans
On 01/26/10 06:03 AM, Rainer Orth wrote: > Rod Evans writes: > >> The compiler engineers have also asked for a means of selecting between a >> family of functions contained within the same dynamic object. Each family >> member is compiled differently to use various capabilities, where these >> ca

PSARC/2010/022 Linker-editors: Symbol Capabilities

2010-01-22 Thread Rod Evans
I've just been pointed to the following mail, which can be found in the opensolaris-arc archives, but isn't in the PSARC mail log. Apologies for missing this, but I'm not subscribed to the opensolaris-arc alias. > Subject: Re: PSARC/2010/022 Linker-editors: Symbol Capabilities

PSARC/2010/022 Linker-editors: Symbol Capabilities

2010-01-21 Thread James Carlson
Rod Evans wrote: > This model fits between the "psr" model and the loop-back mount model, > and should provide a more flexible, and easier to create, model > for general users to add symbol capabilities instances. OK. Yes, it does look a lot simpler and more general than the previous capabilities

PSARC/2010/022 Linker-editors: Symbol Capabilities

2010-01-20 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
why not carry on to the logical conclusion, i.e. full fat binaries (x86/amd64/sparcv7/sparcv9)? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

PSARC/2010/022 Linker-editors: Symbol Capabilities

2010-01-20 Thread James Carlson
Rod Evans wrote: > In other words, we can take the contents of all our libc_psr libraries and > put them in one libc.so.1. Then we can then throw away the /platform > symlinked psr libraries. Wicked cool. Any chance this (or some extension of it) could eventually do in the loopback-mounted libc.

PSARC/2010/022 Linker-editors: Symbol Capabilities

2010-01-20 Thread Rod Evans
On 01/20/10 01:38 PM, James Carlson wrote: > Rod Evans wrote: >> In other words, we can take the contents of all our libc_psr libraries and >> put them in one libc.so.1. Then we can then throw away the /platform >> symlinked psr libraries. > > Wicked cool. Any chance this (or some extension of it

PSARC/2010/022 Linker-editors: Symbol Capabilities

2010-01-20 Thread Rod Evans
I'm sponsoring the following Fact-Track, time out Jan 27th 2010. --- The link-editors provide a number of means for selecting alternative implementations at runtime. Reserved tokens can be used with runpaths (ie. $PLATFO