Re: [PATCH 4/6] ld.so.8: document Debian's /etc/ld.so.nohwcap extension

Jonathan Nieder
2011-10-21T05:30:47Z

Mike Frysinger wrote:

> use IFUNC and then there's usually no need for hwcap alternatives

I see. (I'm not sure that's always true yet for optimizations GCC
knows about, but it's certainly a good direction to go in.)

> On Thursday 20 October 2011 03:14:24 Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> --- a/man8/ld.so.8
>> +++ b/man8/ld.so.8
>>
>> +.I /etc/ld.so.nohwcap
>> +(Debian only, since glibc 2.2.93-1)
>
> i think this belongs in Debian's man-page patchset

Fair enough. Let's drop it from this series, and I can ask joey
whether he thinks it's worth documenting when proposing installing
these pages in Debian manpages.