* Steve Ellcey:
> I have a question about the use of IFUNCs in libatomic. I was looking at the
> arm implementation and in gcc/libatomic/config/linux/arm/host-config.h I see:
>
> extern bool libat_have_strexbhd HIDDEN;
> # define IFUNC_COND_1 libat_have_strexbhd
>
> I also see that gcc/libatomic/config/linux/arm/init.c has:
>
> bool libat_have_strexbhd;
> static void __attribute__((constructor))
> init_cpu_revision (void)
> {
> }
>
> What I don't see is any place that libat_have_strexbhd would ever get
> set. What am I missing here? init_cpu_revision is going to get called
> when libatomic is first loaded since it is a constructor but it doesn't
> seem to do anything and it isn't going to set libat_have_strexbhd as far
> as I can see.
Setting the variable in the constructor wouldn't influence IFUNC
resolver behavior because those can run before ELF constructors
(even with lazy binding).
