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

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Tue Mar 15 20:11:00 GMT 2011


Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com> writes:

>> However, I don't see why you are using an index here.  You have an
>> Object* pointer.  Why not just use that as the handle?
>
> Sri's first patch did use the Object* as the handle, but I suggested
> using an index like the original plugin APIs do. This makes it more
> consistent with the existing interfaces, and also makes it easier to
> sanity check the value passed in from a plugin library.

Hmmmm, well, OK.

Ian



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