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Add support for STT_GNU_IFUNC?
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org, Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:44:34 -0700
- Subject: Add support for STT_GNU_IFUNC?
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 08:59:31AM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> ? I have to apologise to everyone. ?I was obviously jumping the gun by
>> applying this patch before the feature had been fully discussed and
>> improved. ?I do believe that the feature will make it into the ELF
>> standard at some point, but I was premature in adding support for it to
>> the binutils sources.
>
> Thanks. ?There was a brief discussion on the generic-abi list but it
> seems to have stalled; you might want to give it a kick :-) ?Once
> we work out people's concerns, I look forward to having STT_IFUNC
> available.
Hi Nick,
STT_GNU_IFUNC support has been added to glibc and there seems no
interests on STT_IFUNC from other vendors. Do you have plan to add
STT_GNU_IFUNC to binutils?
Thanks.
--
H.J.