[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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