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Re: Fix HEAD build on amd64

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:50:09PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 01:37:30PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Why shouldn't .eh_frame always be read-only?
> 
> It depends on the encoding selected by GCC.  The code in dwarf2out.c
> suggests that there is at least one architecture, somewhere, which
> uses DW_EH_PE_absptr or DW_EH_PE_aligned even for PIC code, and various
> linker versions where it must conservatively be writable.

... but the odds aren't too bad that none of this matters for the
purposes of glibc builds.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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