[PATCH] S/390: Fix two issues with the IFUNC optimized mem* routines

Richard Henderson rth@twiddle.net
Thu Aug 30 14:59:00 GMT 2012


On 08/29/2012 03:44 AM, Andreas Krebbel wrote:
> 1. In the current implementation the resolver functions reside in a
> different file than the CPU optimized versions.  This requires an
> R_390_RELATIVE runtime relocation to be generated when the resolver
> returns the function pointers.

To some extent I think this is a failing in gcc as well.

There's no reason to *ever* drop a hidden function pointer
into the constant pool, since LARL is always available.


r~



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