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Re: [PATCH] S/390: Fix two issues with the IFUNC optimized mem* routines

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Andreas Krebbel
<krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 29/08/12 18:24, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> IFUNC symbol is accessed via GOT.  An IFUNC function may have
>> relocatons, but it shouldn't use GOT to get the resolved symbol.
>
> The question is whether we perhaps want/could get rid of this limitation by e.g. doing the
> relocation processing in two passes. A first walk over the relocations could ignore the IFUNC relocs
> and a second walk could only invoke the resolver functions.
>

I think it is unnecessary and overkill.

-- 
H.J.
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