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Re: mips64 n32 and n64 support in dl-machine.h


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.

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