On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 09:56 +0000, James Greenhalgh wrote: > > One obvious thing I missed in the review is that this change will break > bootstrap on systems with older assemblers. Practically, that's those of > us who are holding out on Ubuntu 14.04. -march=armv8-a+lse would go back > a little further, so would be preferable, but even this won't get bootstrap > back on older systems. > > Is there anything you can do to check for assembler support before turning > on IFUNCS for libatomic, or am I best to just start configuring with > --disable-gnu-indirect-function ? > > Thanks, > James
It should be possible to check for assembler support. I will work on a patch to do that. Steve Ellcey sell...@cavium.com
