PowerPC: gettimeofday optimization by using IFUNC

Richard Henderson rth@twiddle.net
Tue Mar 5 15:06:00 GMT 2013


On 03/05/2013 04:22 AM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> +/* Macro to return vdso_xxx value on IFUNC implementations.
> +   On PPC64 the returned value is actually an OPD entry.  */
> +#if defined(__PPC64__) || defined(__powerpc64__)
> +#define PTR_IFUNC_RET(value)  &value
> +#else
> +#define PTR_IFUNC_RET(value)  value
> +#endif
> +

We are talking about function symbols in C right?  These two expressions are
identical due to function pointer decomposition.


r~



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