On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 10:08:34AM +0200, Florian Weimer via Gcc wrote:
> > So the compiler would emit a call to __memcmpeq and at the same time
> > emit a weak alias of __memcmpeq to memcmp so the program links
> > when the libc version targeted does not provide __memcmpeq? Or would
> > glibc through <string.h> magically communicate the availability of the new
> > ABI
> > without actually declaring the function?
>
> I do not think ELF provides that capability.
>
> We can add a declaration to <string.h> to communicate the availability.
> I think this is how glibc (and other libcs) communicate the availability
> of non-standard interfaces to GCC.
Yeah, that is what we've done in the past, e.g. in case of stpcpy.
Jakub
