aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/src/randomenv.cpp
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorfanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>2021-09-24 08:08:56 +0800
committerfanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>2021-09-24 15:40:04 +0800
commit4446ef0a549d567a88d82b606aa8c47f115673f9 (patch)
treedb27f3fc0b99f1f2e29cb11172526df29520247e /src/randomenv.cpp
parente56100c5b4daf2285dde9807bf654599aa19bd6b (diff)
downloadbitcoin-4446ef0a549d567a88d82b606aa8c47f115673f9.tar.xz
build: remove support for weak linking getauxval()
It was [pointed out in #23030](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/23030#issuecomment-922893367) that we might be able to get rid of our weak linking of [`getauxval()`](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/getauxval.3.html) (`HAVE_WEAK_GETAUXVAL`) entirely, with only Android being a potential holdout: > I wonder if it's time to get rid of HAVE_WEAK_GETAUXVAL. I think it's confusing. Either we build against a C library that has this functionality, or not. We don't do this weak linking thing for any other symbols and recently got rid of the other glibc backwards compatibility stuff. > Unless there is still a current platform that really needs it (Android?), I'd prefer to remove it from the build system, it has caused enough issues. After looking at Android further, it would seem that given we are moving to using `std::filesystem`, which [requires NDK version 22 and later](https://github.com/android/ndk/wiki/Changelog-r22), and `getauxval` has been available in the since [API version 18](https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/cpu-features#features_using_libcs_getauxval3), that shouldn't really be an issue. Support for API levels < 19 will be dropped with the NDK 24 release, and according to [one website](https://apilevels.com/), supporting API level 18+ will cover ~99% of devices. Note that in the CI we currently build with NDK version 22 and API level 28. The other change in this PR is removing the include of headers for ARM intrinsics, from the check for strong `getauxval()` support in configure, as they shouldn't be needed. Including these headers also meant that the check would basically only succeed when building for ARM. This would be an issue if we remove weak linking, as we wouldn't detect `getauxval()` as supported on other platforms. Note that we also use `getauxval()` in our RNG when it's available. I've checked that with these changes we detect support for strong `getauxval()` on Alpine (muslibc). On Linux, previously we'd be detecting support for weak getauxval(), now we detect strong support. Note that we already require glibc 2.17, and `getauxval()` was introduced in `2.16`. This is an alternative / supersedes #23030.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/randomenv.cpp')
-rw-r--r--src/randomenv.cpp6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/randomenv.cpp b/src/randomenv.cpp
index fa2a3a0607..bf23ea4a12 100644
--- a/src/randomenv.cpp
+++ b/src/randomenv.cpp
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
#include <sys/vmmeter.h>
#endif
#endif
-#if defined(HAVE_STRONG_GETAUXVAL) || defined(HAVE_WEAK_GETAUXVAL)
+#if defined(HAVE_STRONG_GETAUXVAL)
#include <sys/auxv.h>
#endif
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ void RandAddStaticEnv(CSHA512& hasher)
// Bitcoin client version
hasher << CLIENT_VERSION;
-#if defined(HAVE_STRONG_GETAUXVAL) || defined(HAVE_WEAK_GETAUXVAL)
+#if defined(HAVE_STRONG_GETAUXVAL)
// Information available through getauxval()
# ifdef AT_HWCAP
hasher << getauxval(AT_HWCAP);
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ void RandAddStaticEnv(CSHA512& hasher)
const char* exec_str = (const char*)getauxval(AT_EXECFN);
if (exec_str) hasher.Write((const unsigned char*)exec_str, strlen(exec_str) + 1);
# endif
-#endif // HAVE_STRONG_GETAUXVAL || HAVE_WEAK_GETAUXVAL
+#endif // HAVE_STRONG_GETAUXVAL
#ifdef HAVE_GETCPUID
AddAllCPUID(hasher);