COMMITTED: Add support for STT_IFUNC
Tristan Gingold
gingold@adacore.com
Fri Dec 5 13:30:00 GMT 2008
On Dec 5, 2008, at 6:19 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> writes:
>
>> I haven't look at the implementation, but is a STT_IFUNC allowed to
>> have relocations
>> against STT_IFUNC symbols ?
>>
>> If not, this is must be checked at link time, otherwise the entries
>> must be topologically ordered.
>
> I don't see why a topological ordering is required. It suffices to
> resolve the relocations lazily on demand. Of course, a circular
> reference will cause an error or an infinite loop.
Humm, right. But better to detect this at link time rather than
unexpectedly at run time.
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