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    SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 03/36] objtool: Enable compilation of objtool for all architectures
    On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:39:23 +0100
    Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com> wrote:

    > My concern with this it that most of the structures and code in arch.h
    > and check.c can/should be reused across architectures. So, when
    > providing support for a new architecutre, the first thing that will be
    > needed is to move those back under tools/objtool whithout disturbing the
    > arches that don't yet provide support for "check" subcommand.

    Are all the enums and structs in arch.h non-arch specific?

    Or would they need to be split?

    >
    > So, if it is decided that recordmcount should be an objtool subcommand,
    > the code itself should probably stay under tools/objtool and then have
    > different compilation configurations for objtool depending on the
    > architecture (e.g. HAVE_OBJTOOL_CHECK, HAVE_OBJTOOL_ORC) or something of
    > the sort.

    That could work.

    -- Steve

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