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COMMITTED: Add support for STT_IFUNC

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Thu Dec 4 14:21:00 GMT 2008 
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Hi Nick,

Would you mind uploading whatever document for STT_IFUNC you have to

http://groups.google.com/group/generic-abi

Thanks.


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H.J.
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