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Re: COMMITTED: Add support for STT_IFUNC
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:10:42 +0100
- Subject: Re: COMMITTED: Add support for STT_IFUNC
- References: <m33ah5l3iv.fsf@redhat.com>
Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:
> + @item STT_IFUNC
> + @itemx indirect_function
> + Mark the symbol as an indirect function when evaluated during reloc
> + processing. (This is only supported on Linux targeted assemblers).
This sentence is confusing. What reloc processing is meant here?
Literally taken, this sentence says that the symbol is not marked right
now, but at some later point in time, and that it involves evaluating
the symbol.
Andreas.
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