Re: [PATCH] ARC: Strip libgcc debug information when generating BTF

["Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2026, at 03:46, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On 11/1/26 11:45, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

>> If you need this to fix the regression, I think it's fine to merge
>> the shared lib/*.c files for for 7.4 along with whatever you need on
>> top. I suspect though based on Sasha's patch, the only thing we
>> actually need is to stop exporting the floating point functions
>> so the types don't leak into btf. If you can verify that this
>> is the case, I would do the full conversion for both nios2
>> and arc in 7.5.
>
> Yeah Sasha's fix works w/o eliding the FP routines (there's an unrelated 
> issue which I send a fix for [1])
>
> As of 7.4-rc1, I have 2 ARC only changes to
> 1. Switch to existing in-tree GENERIC_LIB*
> 2. Dropping FP symbols
>
> I can post them now. Once Simon's changes land, lefover ARC conversion 
> and and removal of libgcc can all go together via your tree if that's OK 
> with you.

Sounds good to me,

    Arnd