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Re: COMMITTED: Add support for STT_IFUNC

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:22:28AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> I would suggest no one deploy this until we have some idea of who
> designed it and who plans to support it... Like Cary, I thought that
> the generic-abi mailing list was the de facto home for ELF
> standardization.  If no one else on the binutils list has seen it,
> then it seems likely to me that most non-Linux stakeholders have
> not either; this could be incompatible with already deployed
> systems.

Of course, the teeth of this argument have been pulled as I did not
notice it was STT_LOOS.  GNU binutils doesn't even know of any other
uses of STT_LOOS at present; HPPA uses STT_LOOS + 1 and STT_LOOS + 2.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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