Re: Questions about --with-alpha and --with-armeb configure flags
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> If I understand correctly it's only adding arch detection
and syscall
> tables to ausyscall. Why are these syscall table conditional?
To reduce the number of text relocations in libaudit. Libaudit links against a
number of applications and text relocations eats memory and increases startup
time.
Is that really an issue with the current code? The gentab.c code was designed to avoid
text relocations.
At least on x86_64 (which, true, is especially well-designed for this), there are no text
relocations in libaudit nor libauparse, whether --with-alpha or --with-armeb are used or
not. In fact the number of relocations of any kind is exactly the same in both cases.
Any one care to retest this on a different architecture, e.t. 32-bit x86?
FWIW, at least the attached patch was necessary to build with --with-alpha --with-armeb.
Mirek
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