On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:39 AM, John David Anglin <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Binutils should not merge the special function pointers used to mark > the start and end of the .ctors/.dtors lists. This could be tested > for in libc, but this is inefficient. On architectures that use > function descriptors, function pointer comparisons are messy. Do > we want to call the infamous cffc in the dynamic loader? Casts of > function pointers to integer types are implementation defined and > pointer sizes can vary. So, the simple hack could break. > > In my opinion, binutils should be fixed to work with old glibc > versions. There is a work around in my binutils PR. I would like __cffc to eventually go away. It's only required because of the incorrectly implemented PLABEL support in binutils. A PLABEL in the executable should not be resolved to a PLT entry, it should remain a relocation for the dynamic loader to resolve. Once that's fixed, eventually __cffc will go away. That's a project that is only agenda after some glibc cleanup. Cheers, Carlos. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
