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Re: [RFC PATCH] Decreasing the size of .opd on ppc64

From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
Cc: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:06:25 -0400
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Decreasing the size of .opd on ppc64
References: <20040610120758.GE21264@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <200406101353.i5ADrx232160@makai.watson.ibm.com>
Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:53:59AM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 	We intentionally designed the PPC64 Linux OPD entries to be
> compatible with AIX function descriptors: three words.

They would stay to be 3 words, just the unused aux field wouldn't be
0 or library base address, but could have different value as well.
If the compiler knew it needs the aux field, it would make sure it has the
value it is expecting in it.

	Jakub

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- [RFC PATCH] Decreasing the size of .opd on ppc64
  - From: Jakub Jelinek
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