The split stack support only recently went into the gold linker for Power so the configure needs to detect if the gold linker version contains that support. If the build tries to use a gold linker without that support the build will fail on Power. My understanding was that the gold linker support had been there for other platforms. That is why the configure check is target dependent and only Power cares about the version number.
I started out with a simpler patch like you have but after trying to build it
on ppc64le, ppc64, and ppc this is what I ended up with and I didn't want to mess up other platforms so I left those as is. On 08/19/2015 02:33 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:
On 08/18/2015 10:36 PM, Lynn A. Boger wrote:As discussed in PR 66870, for ppc64le and ppc64le it is preferred to use the gold linker with gccgo or gcc if the split stack option is enabled. Use of the gold linker with the split stack option results in less storage allocated for goroutine stacks; if split stack is used without the gold linker then some testcase failures can occur. Since the use of the gold linker has not been well tested with all gcc compilers on Power, it is only used as the linker if the split stack option is used. This adds the capability to the configure for gcc and libgo to determine if the gold linker is available at build time, either in the path or explicitly configured, and its version supports split stack. If that is the case then defines are set that cause the gold linker to be used by the compiler when -fsplit-stack is used. This applies to ppc64 and ppc64le. Other platforms with split stack work as before. 2015-08-18 Lynn Boger <labo...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> gcc/ PR target/66870 config/rs6000/linux64.h: When HAVE_LD_GOLD_SUPPORTS_SPLIT_STACK is defined add -fuse-ld=gold if fsplit-stack and not m32 config/rs6000/sysv4.h: Define TARGET_CAN_SPLIT_STACK based on LIBC version. config.in: Set up HAVE_LD_GOLD_SUPPORTS_SPLIT_STACK. configure.ac: When gold linker is available and its version supports split stack on ppc64, ppc64le, define HAVE_LD_GOLD_SUPPORTS_SPLIT_STACK. configure: Regenerate. libgo/ PR target/66870 configure.ac: When gccgo for building libgo uses the gold version containing split stack support on ppc64, ppc64le, define LINKER_SUPPORTS_SPLIT_STACK. configure: Regenerate. For platforms other than ppc64 and ppc64le, the configure for gcc and libgo behave as before.why keep the old behaviour for other archs that have split stack support? Is it really necessary to make this dependent on the target? I'm still using an unreviewed/unpinged patch to enable gold for gccgo (attached). Matthias
