> I assume ELF_HWCAP is being used in architecture-independent code? Or > would it be feasible to replace all occurrences with the function call?
Many architecture in elfloader.c hardcode ELF_HWCAP before putting into the AT_HWCAP elf field which is used by glibc to guess the cpu capabilities. I don't feel it so arch independant. > I'm wondering if this translation table were better placed in > target-arm/helper.c where we fiddle with the features in the first > place. We could loop through all features here and call a function that > returns the hwcap or 0 and |= it. Me and others will be adding new > features and we'll risk adapting this here. > > I modeled this patch by looking at PPC behavior. However I can rewrite it if needed but pcc will need a rewrite too.
