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Re: [patch/RFA/hppa] Make the stub identification code smarter
- From: Randolph Chung <randolph at tausq dot org>
- To: mark Kettenis <kettenis at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:11:09 -0800
- Subject: Re: [patch/RFA/hppa] Make the stub identification code smarter
- References: <20041118012327.GH15714@tausq.org> <200411181701.iAIH1RPE026059@juw15.nfra.nl>
- Reply-to: Randolph Chung <randolph at tausq dot org>
> 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
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