Re: CVS commit: src/doc

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 07:36:00PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 29.02.2020 19:00, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> >> Module Name:    src
> >> Committed By:   kamil
> >> Date:           Sat Feb 29 04:27:01 UTC 2020
> >>
> >> Modified Files:
> >>         src/doc: CHANGES
> >>
> >> Log Message:
> >> ld.elf_so(1): Implement DT_GNU_HASH
> > 
> > Was this discussed anywhere?
> 
> In the toolchain circles, for some time now (2+ years).
> 
> It was one of the pending task to modernize our ELF loader on par with
> at least FreeBSD.

Can we please stop with this "we must need XXX to be on par with YYY"
nonsense without actually looking at the details first and discuss them?
Practically speaking, there was moderately little discussion about the
actual design choices of DT_GNU_HASH, especially some of its deficits.
Especially because we already have some important improvements in our
tree *without breaking compatibility*. Especially the size claims are
questionable at best as justification are weak at best. It also ignores
that by design DT_GNU_HASH conflicts with at least one platform ABI.

Joerg