On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:55:54PM +0100, Richard Sandiford wrote: > The size of the header and first 0x10000 stubs would be the same. > I think it would also preserve the resolver interface while removing > the need for the extra-large .plts. The only incompatibility I can > see would be that objdump on older executables would not get the > foo@plt symbols right for large indices. > > OTOH, perhaps you could argue that the extra complication of the > two PLT entries doesn't count for much given that the code is > already written. It's just an idea. Your version looks fine to me, it's ABI-preserving, the PLT entries still work for MIPS I and still have the same runtime cost when not resolving. I like it - thanks! I'm not worried about making people upgrade objdump, either. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
