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Re: Proposal for STT_GNU_IFUNC and R_*_IRELATIVE
- From: Rod Evans <Rod dot Evans at sun dot com>
- To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Cc: generic-abi at googlegroups dot com, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, discuss at x86-64 dot org, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, IA32 System V Application Binary Interface <ia32-abi at googlegroups dot com>, Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 11:14:05 -0700
- Subject: Re: Proposal for STT_GNU_IFUNC and R_*_IRELATIVE
- References: <6dc9ffc80905251156p1ab274aey8e52be086fd88749@mail.gmail.com> <4A1C1B68.10805@sun.com> <4A1C29DC.9010401@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Rod dot Evans at sun dot com
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
Rod Evans wrote:
Late last year there was a discussion in regards STT_IFUNC, and we
thought you'd settled on this name (no _GNU_) and the associated
value of 7.
No. Because _you_ said you don't want this we settled on an OS-specific
value and name.
I said I had some reservations about it's implementation, and that we
had no immediate plans on implementing it. We thought the number had
been decided.
I assume we should now remove this dead-wood and reserve the STT_LOOS
value instead.
Why reserve it? It's OS-specific. Nobody will crowd that range but you
and if you should use it and it's a different value, then it doesn't
matter either.
We try and keep track of various ELF definitions, so that we can at
least identify them in a user friendly manner.
--
Rod.