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Re: [PATCH] Fixup PPC symbol versioning for libgcc symbols

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo dot med dot uc dot edu>
Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:04:19 -0700
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixup PPC symbol versioning for libgcc symbols
References: <200208192249.SAA28615@bromo.msbb.uc.edu>

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Jack Howarth wrote:

    Franz said that he wrote in assembly for optimization,
to avoid typos in parameter passing and to tell the linker
it can use a local jump (@local).

The latter should be possible in C. If a function is marked hidden gcc should make a local call.

What I'm concerned about since I cannot remember having seen it: is the code omitted if support for old ABIs is not required?

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