Plugin interfaces to do Pettis Hansen style code layout in the gold linker.

[Sriraman Tallam]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/03/2011 02:37, Sriraman Tallam wrote:
>> Hi Cary,
>>
>>
>>   Like we discussed, I made all the changes. I now have a separate
>> list of unclaimed objects in the Plugin manager and the handle will be
>> an index into it. I have also added a new hook called
>> "inspect_unclaimed_object". This handler allows the plugin to examine
>> the contents of an unclaimed object. Now, I have disallowed examining
>> claimed objects here as the methods to get their contents etc. are not
>> defined in Pluginobj. Also, I have kept the original interfaces to get
>> section count or type or contents. I think I would need this interface
>> for my work rather than only get contents based on filters. I guess
>> more interfaces can be added easily.
>
>  This new functionality lacks a spec.  Can you add an update to
> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/whopr/driver to explain the new callbacks please?

Yes, will do immediately after I submit my patch.

Thanks,
-Sriraman.


>
>    cheers,
>      DaveK
>
>