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Re: RFC: Should x86-64 support arbitrary calling conventions?

On 03/20/2017 07:30 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

(3) Dynamic linking with special options.

    - Use -fno-plt or -Wl,-z,now
    - Degraded developer tooling features because of current lack of support for
      alternate function call ABIs.
    - Inability to use LD_AUDIT audit framework without PLT entries.
    - ELF interposition still preserved.
Blocking existing LD_AUDIT support is a good thing here if you don't follow the ABI. But I still think we need to spell out the remaining ABI requires (as I said earlier), so that we can eventually add LD_AUDIT support for noplt calls. 

Thanks,
Florian
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