hppa dynamic linker fix for g++ 3.0

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Sun Jun 17 16:14:00 GMT 2001


Matthew Wilcox <willy@paer.debian.org> writes:

> With gcc 3.0's new exception handling mechanism, relocations can now be
> placed at addresses which are not aligned at a multiple of 4.  This patch
> allows that to work.

You don't want to do it this way.  This is a horrible performance
killer.  If you have unaligned relocations create a separate
relocation type.  Look how other architectures (e.g. SPARC) do it.

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