Re: current development

[Philippe Michel]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 03:51:12PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> Philippe Michel <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Reasonably recent versions of gcc and clang have a feature (ifuncs) that
> > should allow to to this in one single binary. I don't know how onerous
> > it would be at package building stage, but I think a few parts of Linux,
> > for instance glibc, use that feature, so at least it wouldn't be unknown
> > territory.
> 
> Oh, interesting.  Is this something that I can just enable with a compiler
> flag, or does it need code support in gnubg?

This would be mostly in gnubg's code. Maybe something would be needed at 
configure stage as well.

The post below shows a minimal example of how this is used:
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2012-03/msg00209.html