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Re: [patch/RFA/hppa] Make the stub identification code smarter


> AFAIK the BSD's don't use a segmented memory model, and therefore
> don't use stubs, but I'm not completely sure about that.

neither does hppa-linux. The stubs are not for that... they are for
calling shlib functions and to handle long branches (since for pa11 the
branch target for a b,l insn is only 17 bits)

> Now that I think of it, OpenBSD/hppa didn't have shared libraries
> until very recently.

ok, anyway, just a heads up in case the code is useful for hppabsd too
:)

randolph
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Randolph Chung
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports
http://www.tausq.org/


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