[Mips}Using DT tags for handling local ifuncs
Maciej W. Rozycki
macro@codesourcery.com
Tue Dec 10 20:51:00 GMT 2013
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> > GDB has explicit ifunc support for making manual calls to such functions,
> > see stuff around elf_gnu_ifunc_fns in gdb/elfread.c; I'm not sure offhand
> > whether it needs to know details discussed here though, I suggest
> > double-checking.
>
> What we're discussing here is whether debuggers would need to understand
> the ABI GOT layout, i.e. whether the debugger itself will try to figure
> out where the implicitly-relocated part of the local GOT starts. I did
> check that before posting originally and couldn't see anything.
OK, thanks for confirming.
Maciej
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