Proposal for STT_GNU_IFUNC and R_*_IRELATIVE

Rod Evans Rod.Evans@sun.com
Tue May 26 18:18:00 GMT 2009


Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Rod Evans wrote:
>> Late last year there was a discussion in regards STT_IFUNC, and we
>> thought you'd settled on this name (no _GNU_) and the associated
>> value of 7.
> 
> No.  Because _you_ said you don't want this we settled on an OS-specific
> value and name.

I said I had some reservations about it's implementation, and that we
had no immediate plans on implementing it.  We thought the number had
been decided.

>> I assume we should now remove this dead-wood and reserve the STT_LOOS
>> value instead.
> 
> Why reserve it?  It's OS-specific.  Nobody will crowd that range but you
> and if you should use it and it's a different value, then it doesn't
> matter either.

We try and keep track of various ELF definitions, so that we can at
least identify them in a user friendly manner.


-- 

Rod.



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