[commit] [ppc64le patch v3] Use skip_entrypoint for skip_trampoline_code

Jan Kratochvil jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Tue Sep 15 17:10:00 GMT 2015


On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:55:14 +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Actually, I thought it was fine to have this just be PowerPC-specific.
> 
> The need to skip entrypoints in skip_trampoline_code is only due to the
> quite PowerPC-specific dynamic linker optimization to redirect the PLT
> slot to the local entry point.  I'm not sure if any other target that may
> want to use the skip_entrypoint logic in the future will have the same
> requirement, so it seemed preferable to have that platform-specific.
> 
> In any case, it is probably better to wait with refactoring this into
> common code until such time as there actually *is* a second platform
> that uses skip_entrypoint, so we're clearer about the actual requirements.

OK.

Checked in:
	141c5cc4c44a6ce1a5c628c0f4849a8b1c91d383


Thanks,
Jan



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