Re: [PATCH] x86: Treat relocation against IFUNC symbol as FUNC

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi H.J.

>> Actually - thinking about it further ... why should it matter that it is a
>> note section that is being relocated ?  Surely the same logic should apply
>> to any ifunc-targeted relocation in a non-alloc section.  For example, I
>> wonder if your patch would actually work for debug sections as well ?
>> (Rather than the current option of just silently ignoring the reloc).
> 
> GDB has special handling for IFUNC symbols which works well for the
> current approach with debug sections.  Will such a change break GDB?

Probably.  I did not know that GDB had such handling.

OK, so apart from debug sections, is there any reason not to treat ifunc
targeted relocs in non-alloc sections as if they were targeted at the func
instead ?  IE not just for note sections, but for all non-alloc, non-debug
sections ?  

Cheers
  Nick