Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
