[patch preview] New target hooks

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Aug  4, 2003, Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:23:41PM +1000, Fergus Henderson wrote:
>> > If you can't get the ABI of a function from its type, then
>> > taking the address of the function changes its ABI.
>> 
>> That's not impossible; a function could have two entry points,
>> one for direct calls and one for indirect calls.

> Sure, if we did that.  But we don't, ergo we have a bug.

And if at some point we do, we have to change interfaces all over?
Don't sound like a good plan to me, if we can have a
forward-compatible solution right now that would be more efficient.

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