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Re: mips64 n32 and n64 support in dl-machine.h
Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com> writes:
|> On Mar 14, 2003, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de> wrote:
|>
|> > IMHO a better solution would be a way to use a different signature for the
|> > elf_machine_rel function with void* as the last parameter for those
|> > architectures that need to handle unaligned stores specially.
|>
|> That's not good enough. Consider that elf_machine_rel may be inlined
|> into a function that does know it's passing it something that it
|> thinks is more aligned than it actually is.
The actual arguments are always generic pointers (or integers cast to it),
so it would be safe.
Andreas.
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