ok.

David

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Easwaran Raman <era...@google.com> wrote:
> Based on Paolo's comments I am dropping the changes to
> baseline_symbols.txt. As far as minor version, I am bumping it up to
> 18. Assuming that this patch will be able to go in gcc 4.8 (with minor
> version 18), I want to keep it at the same version in google/main and
> google/gcc-4_6.
>
> Bootstraps and no test regression. OK for google/main and
> google/gcc-4_6 branches?
>
> ---------
> 011-12-17  Easwaran Raman  <era...@google.com>
>
>        * common.opt (fsized-delete): New option.
>
> cp/ChangeLog.google-main:
>
> 2011-12-17  Easwaran Raman  <era...@google.com>
>
>        * decl.c (cxx_init_decl_processing): Specify a function that
>          takes a void* and size_t for DELETE_EXPR.
>        * call.c (build_op_delete_call): If fsized-delete is used, use
>          the variant that takes size_t as the second parameter except
>          when deleteting a pointer of type void *.
>
> testsuite/ChangeLog.google-main:
>
> 2011-12-17  Easwaran Raman  <era...@google.com>
>
>        * g++.dg/other/sized-delete-1.C: New test.
>
> libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog.google-main:
>
> 2011-12-17  Easwaran Raman  <era...@google.com>
>
>        * libsupc++/del_op.cc (delete): Define a new variant
>          void operator delete(void*, std::size_t).
>        * libsupc++/new (delete): Declare
>          void operator delete(void*, std::size_t) throw();
>        * testsuite/util/testsuite_abi.cc (check_version): Add new
>          known version GLIBCXX_3.4.18.
>        * config/abi/pre/gnu.ver: Add new symbol _ZdlPv[jmy] at version
>          GLIBCXX_3.4.18.
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Paolo Carlini <paolo.carl...@oracle.com> 
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Paolo Carlini
>>> <paolo.carl...@oracle.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 12/12/2011 09:37 PM, Easwaran Raman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the comments Paolo. I have attached the new patch. I have
>>>>> bumped the version to 3.4.18
>>>>
>>>> You shouldn't: 4.7 is not out yet, thus no reason to increase the minor
>>>> version beyond the current 17.
>>>
>>> Ok, I then don't understand your comment
>>>  "Note that backporting the patch as-is to 4_6-branch would be very
>>> wrong in terms of ABI (in mainline we already have a 3.4.17)".
>>> My original patch added the new symbol in version 3.4.17. Since we
>>> don't want to add the symbol to 3.4.16 (if we have a situation where
>>> the new runtime is not available when running a program compiled with
>>> -fsized-delete) and you   said I shouldn't be using 3.4.17, I assumed
>>> I had to bump up the version.
>>
>> Note this is going to be an academic discussion, because it's too late for
>> 4.7 anyway, and I'm not even sure it's conforming to add overloads like this
>> for operators.
>>
>> Anyway.
>>
>> For 4.6 branch at this point the situation would be very difficult. We could
>> have a small time window before 4.7 is out to move **all** its new symbols
>> vs 4.6, currently in 3.4.17,  to a new 3.4.18 and then we could bump 4.6 to
>> 3.4.17. You see, after a minor is delivered you cannot add anything to it,
>> and also you have the general requirement that the minor version is the
>> minor ersion, thus irrespective whether we are talking about gcc4.6 or
>> gcc4.7, a specific minor version number defines which symbols are exported.
>> I hope now the issues are more clear.You must be always very careful.
>>
>>>>>  and used _ZdlPv[jmy] in gnu.ver.  I have
>>>>> also added the symbol to baseline_symbols.txt of other targets.
>>>>
>>>> You should not, just read again what I wrote. And you don't have to
>>>> believe
>>>> me: just browse the libstdc++ ChangeLogs and see if somebody ever does
>>>> that
>>>> when the linker map is touched.
>>>
>>> Sorry, I again misunderstood this as well (and still don't have a good
>>> picture). Is the part which adds _ZdlPv[jmy] in gnu.ver ok?
>>
>> Looks fine yes. But I didn't really check the letters. General rule of thumb
>> when fiddling with linker scripts: double check what you are doing with a
>> multilib system, like x86_64, at least you can catch errors when you are
>> mistakenly not accounting for the 32-bit version of the symbols. In the case
>> at issue, size_t can boil down be unsigned int, unsigned long, unsigned long
>> long, make sure the pattern includes all three.
>>
>>> I added
>>> that by mimicking the symbol  _Znw[jmy] found in the same file. From
>>> the log, it looks like the baseline_symbols.txt seems to be generated,
>>> but I am not sure how that is to be done. For example, r145437 says a
>>> bunch of these baseline_symbols.txt are regenerated, but I don't see
>>> any other change from which this might be generated.
>>
>> General rule of thumb: normally, if you aren't a release manager, or a
>> maintainer, **never** regenerate the baseline_symbols files. Just add
>> symbols to the linker script, that is normally fine, doesn't break anything
>> per se, adding is fine (subtracting/changing is not, of course).
>>
>> Paolo.

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