End markers for functions.
Marc Lehmann
pcg@opengroup.org
Tue Nov 30 23:59:00 GMT 1999
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 11:25:09AM +0000, Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> wrote:
> What advantage does this have over searching the symtab for the
> highest-address function symbol which is less than the PC?
I didn't write the patch, but one application comes to my mind: some
compilers (That use gcc as backend) for functional languages are fine with
the generated code but have to strip or modify the prologue/epilogue.
i.e. this patch would help where you need to parse the assembly code,
rather than the object file.
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