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Re: [PATCH] S/390: Fix two issues with the IFUNC optimized mem* routines


On 30/08/12 16:59, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 08/29/2012 03:44 AM, Andreas Krebbel wrote:
>> 1. In the current implementation the resolver functions reside in a
>> different file than the CPU optimized versions.  This requires an
>> R_390_RELATIVE runtime relocation to be generated when the resolver
>> returns the function pointers.
> 
> To some extent I think this is a failing in gcc as well.
> 
> There's no reason to *ever* drop a hidden function pointer
> into the constant pool, since LARL is always available.

The problem was that I unfortunately missed to mark the references hidden in a way visible to GCC :(

-Andreas-



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