RFH/RFC: symbol index overflow in MIPS linker stubs...
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@false.org
Wed Jun 7 20:39:00 GMT 2006
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:03:30PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:27:59PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > > I would favour a two instruction sequence, applications will continue to
> > > grow. There might be some compatibility traps, but at a superficial
> > > glance I haven't found an obvious blocker.
> >
> > If we can change the stub sequence without ABI problems, why waste an
> > instruction? Support both.
>
> Will the stub section support varying entry sizes? I'm not sure.
This is solveable, as a simple matter of programming, or ignorable,
by padding the shorter entries with a trailing nop.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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