[illumos-Developer] Review 693

[Gordon Ross]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Jason King <jason.brian.king at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was suggesting for i386, you could (in theory) fold libmvec.so.1 and
> libmvec_hwcap1.so.1 into a single library (libmsec.so.1) via the use of a
> mapfile (see http://blogs.oracle.com/rie/entry/symbol_capabilities for a
> much better explanation).  However, if it's a non-trivial effort, might be
> better to skip it.  I haven't messed with the linker features that allow you
> do combine the two, so I am unsure if doing so is 'easy' or 'hard'.

I think this is worth trying to do now.  I don't think it's hard.

> I was also wondering (as a general question) if this mechanism should be
> used going forward for other libraries that currently use the old hwcap
> mechanism, and if so, should bugs be filed for those.

Sure.

Gordon