old libraries
old libraries
Posted Jul 24, 2014 11:16 UTC (Thu) by nhippi (subscriber, #34640)In reply to: not Java? by marcH
Parent article: Handling ARM architecture changes
http://www.rtsoft.com/forums/showthread.php?16636-Warning...
Take an ignorant developer who uses and old copy of a library and doesn't care about warnings... they might still be uploading new packages to play store with swp.
This needs to be attacked from multiple fronts:
- change gas to emit an error instead of warning on swp from armv7+
- get the gas patch into android NDK
- error on deprecated instructions on play store uploads
- spam developers of existing apps in play store about their use of deprecated instructions?
- emulate swp until google reports that there is less than X apps in play store without swp.
Just emulating in kernel won't solve the issue, but it still needs to be done - OEM's will do it anyways, and not having it mainline will be seen from OEM's a message that their needs are not taken seriously by mainline community.
* I suspect game developers using boost are major source of swp as boost upgrades are often API incompatible so sticking to old version is tempting...