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COMMITTED: Add support for STT_IFUNC

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Thu Dec 4 08:40:00 GMT 2008 
Hi Cary,

>>>   I am applying the patch below to add support for a new ELF symbol
>>>   type.  It is currently under review by the ELF committee and I am
>>>   reliably informed that it will be added to the official
>>>   specification fairly soon now.

>> What is meant by "the ELF committee" and "the official specification" in
>> this regard?  I see nothing recent at

A good question.  I do not have a simple answer.  I was told by Ulrich 
Drepper - the glibc maintainer - that this feature was being reviewed by 
  a subgroup of the "ELF stakeholders" and that they were in favour of 
it.  (The word "committee" was a mistake in my original posting.  I 
should have used "stakeholders").  But exactly who these stakeholders 
may be I do not know and what authority they may have is unknown to me. 
  Still I am willing to believe that they exist and that they have the 
best interests of the ELF standard at heart.

Cheers
   Nick
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