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Re: [PATCH][x86_64] Convert indirect call via GOT to direct when possible
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Sriraman Tallam <tmsriram at google dot com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, David Li <davidxl at google dot com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 23:10:14 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH][x86_64] Convert indirect call via GOT to direct when possible
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2016, Cary Coutant wrote:
> A range of years (e.g., "2012-2016") is only valid when the file was
> updated in each of the years in the range. So a blanket "onwards" is
No, as long as there was a released version of the package (including in
public version control) in each year. See the Information for Maintainers
of GNU Software. binutils/README has the required statement about the
meaning of ranges.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com