From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: bdale@gag.com, 204789@bugs.debian.org,
Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>,
debian-ia64@lists.debian.org, 217484@bugs.debian.org,
gcl-devel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ia64 function descriptors and unexec
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:28:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeu15shut2.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54vfq8t6ij.fsf_-_@intech19.enhanced.com> (Camm Maguire's message of "29 Oct 2003 10:20:36 -0500")
Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com> writes:
> To sum up the previous discussion, the ia64 linux ABI apparently
> offers no opportunity for ld.so to ensure that function descriptors
> remain constant, even over successive executions of the same binary on
> the same machine.
There is no problem with statically initialized function pointers, only
for assigned pointer at runtime. The function descriptors for the former
are generated at compile time and won't ever change.
> I believe that this issue stood in the way of an emacs port to ia64
> linux for some time,
There is no such problem with GNU Emacs. Only XEmacs has this problem.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-29 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <543cddb93x.fsf@intech19.enhanced.com>
[not found] ` <20031028165700.GA1308@nevyn.them.org>
2003-10-29 15:20 ` ia64 function descriptors and unexec Camm Maguire
2003-10-29 16:28 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2003-10-29 17:36 ` Camm Maguire
2003-10-29 21:21 ` [Gcl-devel] " Andreas Schwab
2003-10-29 22:55 ` Peter Chubb
2003-10-30 6:47 ` Bug#204789: " Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-10-30 9:22 ` Peter Chubb
2003-10-31 0:08 ` Bug#204789: " Richard Stallman
2003-10-31 16:06 ` Camm Maguire
2003-10-31 17:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-10-31 22:47 ` Bug#204789: " Camm Maguire
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