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Re: COMMITTED: Add support for STT_IFUNC
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 08:36:14AM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> A good question. I do not have a simple answer. I was told by Ulrich
> Drepper - the glibc maintainer - that this feature was being reviewed by
> a subgroup of the "ELF stakeholders" and that they were in favour of it.
> (The word "committee" was a mistake in my original posting. I should have
> used "stakeholders"). But exactly who these stakeholders may be I do not
> know and what authority they may have is unknown to me. Still I am
> willing to believe that they exist and that they have the best interests
> of the ELF standard at heart.
I would suggest no one deploy this until we have some idea of who
designed it and who plans to support it... Like Cary, I thought that
the generic-abi mailing list was the de facto home for ELF
standardization. If no one else on the binutils list has seen it,
then it seems likely to me that most non-Linux stakeholders have
not either; this could be incompatible with already deployed
systems.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery