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    When multiple CPU architectures are supported, allow dynamically linked... · f3f167bc
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    When multiple CPU architectures are supported, allow dynamically linked clients to be given optimal versions of routines where possible
    
    Detail:
      This set of changes adds support for representing architecture-specific variants of routines within the export tables which the shared C library uses to fill in the client's stubs.
      This allows builds of the module which target multiple architectures (e.g. IOMD, Raspberry Pi, or softloads) to offer the most optimal versions of routines to clients wherever multiple variants exist.
      If only one architecture is supported, only one version of each routine will be built, and no variant tables will be generated.
      Currently routine selection for staticly linked clients isn't supported - staticly linked targets will only use the most backwards-compatible version of the routines, as before. Also not all routines are catered for yet (e.g. _ll_udiv)
      File changes:
      - s/h_common - New file containing macros used during variant table construction
      - Makefile - Set SHARED_C_LIBRARY to {TRUE} for SCL builds of assembler code, as per the SHARED_C_LIBRARY #define
      - kernel/s/k_body, s/longlong - For routines which have multiple variants available for the target architectures, build all variants, and generate variant table entries using the new RoutineVariant macro. This has required some reordering of the different variants to make sure that when both versions are built, the most backwards-compatible one will be first (and thus will be called by staticly linked clients)
      - s/h_modmacro - "Entry" macro (when building SCL export tables) changed to use DCD instead of B, to allow byte-aligned symbols to be represented (low bits of symbol address is now used as 'is a variant table' flag)
      - s/initmodule - Client stub initialisation rewritten to take into account the B -> DCD change, and to detect and evaluate variant entries
      - clib/s/cl_entries, kernel/s/k_entries, kernel/s/k_entries2 - Update library entry tables to reference the variant forms of routines where relevant
    Admin:
      Tested on Raspberry Pi 1, 2, 3 (ROM), RISC OS 3.1 & StrongARM 3.7 (softload 26bit build)
      Requires Kernel-5_35-4_79_2_325
    
    
    Version 5.91. Tagged as 'RISC_OSLib-5_91'
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