#1050930 Obsolete hwcap section

Package:
manpages-dev
Source:
manpages-dev
Submitter:
Mathieu Malaterre
Date:
2023-08-31 13:33:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1050930#5
Date:
2023-08-31 13:31:10 UTC
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Currently `ld.so` man page describes location hwcap libraries. This
appears to be obsolete in glibc 2.37.

My Debian system reports:

% LD_DEBUG=libs LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. /bin/true
   3624017:     find library=libc.so.6 [0]; searching
   3624017:      search
path=./tls/haswell/x86_64:./tls/haswell:./tls/x86_64:./tls:./haswell/x86_64:./haswell:./x86_64:.
               (LD_LIBRARY_PATH)

Debian sid reports:

% LD_DEBUG=libs LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. /bin/true
   3626040:     find library=libc.so.6 [0]; searching
   3626040:      search
path=./glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3:./glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v2:.
 (LD_LIBRARY_PATH)


Please tweak the section:

NOTES
   Hardware capabilities
[...]
The following names are currently recognized:
[...]
       x86 (32-bit only)
              acpi, apic, clflush, cmov, cx8, dts, fxsr, ht, i386,
i486, i586, i686, mca, mmx, mtrr, pat, pbe, pge, pn, pse36, sep, ss,
sse, sse2, tm

Thanks !