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Re: mips64 n32 and n64 support in dl-machine.h
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 01:13:29PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Mar 18, 2003, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de> wrote:
>
> > Have you tried my suggestion yet? I still think that would be the
> > cleaner approach.
>
> Your suggestion might work today, but I've already explained why a
> smarter compiler might be able to defeat it, if not now, at some point
> in which unrelated `clean-ups' change void* to the actual types in
> callers. I don't see what's not clean about this approach, anyway.
> It adds no instructions whatsoever, and it makes sure no assumptions
> can possibly be made by the compiler about the alignment of the
> relocation value, which is exactly what we want. I.e., it's more
> robust than any change elsewhere.
If unrelated cleanups change the void* to the actual type, and it
doesn't always have the alignment of that type, the cleanups are in
error - period.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer