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From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Fast gettimeofday(2) and static linking
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 02:35:54PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> Bruce Evans reported that statically linked binaries on HEAD an stable/9
> use the syscall for gettimeofday(2) and clock_gettime(2). Apparently, this
> is due to my use of the weak reference to the __vdso* symbols in the
> libc implementations.
> 
> Patch below reworks the __vdso* attributes to only make the symbols
> weak, but keep the references strong. Since I have to add a stub for
> each architecture, I would like to ask non-x86 machines owners to test
> the patch.
> 

Hi Konstantin,

what's the appropriate way to test this?

Marius