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Re: [patch] Fix PR tree-optimization/47056
> > I didn't noticed it is with ia64 and function descriptors. Here read from
> > function descriptor indeed makes more sense then read from random place in
> > text segment on other arches. What exactly is the code sequence doing with
> > the descritor?
>
> Copying it from a static to a dynamic vtable.
>
> > We might add read edges for functions for this reason, but
> > it seems to me that only reason to read function descriptor is to call it
> > indirectly later, so it is equivalent of taking address anyway?
>
> Yes, exactly.
Agreed, adding address taken edge for dynamic vtable is the right thing...
Honza
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> Eric Botcazou