Fix HEAD build on amd64
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@false.org
Fri Feb 24 21:50:00 GMT 2006
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:50:09PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 01:37:30PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Why shouldn't .eh_frame always be read-only?
>
> It depends on the encoding selected by GCC. The code in dwarf2out.c
> suggests that there is at least one architecture, somewhere, which
> uses DW_EH_PE_absptr or DW_EH_PE_aligned even for PIC code, and various
> linker versions where it must conservatively be writable.
... but the odds aren't too bad that none of this matters for the
purposes of glibc builds.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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