arm/thumb: problems with function pointers

Adrian von Bidder avbidder@acter.ch
Fri Jan 18 08:14:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 12:44, Phil Blundell wrote:

> I don't really understand what you're getting at here.  At the time the
> relocation is generated there isn't (in the general case) any way to
> know whether the target is a Thumb function.  That information is only
> available for certain at the time the relocation is being resolved,
> during final link.  GOT entries for locally-defined symbols are a rather
> special case.

Ok, my fault - I was only looking at this local symbol and forgetting
that this isn't the normal case.

greets from Zürich
-- vbi



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