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Re: Fix PR 51.

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel dot crashing dot org>
Cc: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:04:51 +0100
Subject: Re: Fix PR 51.
References: <20040322225545.GF24501@bubble.modra.org><5C906886-7C9D-11D8-A085-000A95A4DC02@kernel.crashing.org>

Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> writes:

>> Fixes PR 51.
>
> Thanks :-)
>
>> Another reason why those powerpc64-linux dot symbols must
>> go.
>
> Yeah.  But what to replace it with?  How do other ABIs with
> function descriptors handle this?

I don't know how ppc64 works, but on ia64 it's the linker's resposibility
to allocate function descriptors as needed (sometimes even at runtime when
loading a library).

Andreas.

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