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Re: [PATCH 2/2] MIPS16: MIPS16 support proper
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 21:06 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Richard Henderson wrote:
>
> > And of course as you note elsewhere, this is an excellent time to
> > have new toolchains stop using .init, as DT_INIT_ARRAY has none of
> > these problems.
>
> Given the above I think we need it sooner rather than later. Who's got
> the power to make it happen?
>
> Maciej
Would switching from .init to DT_INIT_ARRAY be an incompatible ABI
change? I think I remember the GNU linker can handle mixing both types
of sections in one executable but I am not sure if that is right.
I added Richard Sandiford to this email in case he hasn't seen it on the
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Steve Ellcey
sellcey@mips.com