On 8/2/07, Jose Flavio Aguilar Paulino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> because when the symbol is a function, and you are looking for it, we
> have the following:
> val = sym->st_value;
>
> but, in Power (I don't know how it works in IA64), this value would be
> the address of entry in the table, not the address of the symbol, so the
> look up will fail.


Why is that a problem?  On ia64, we also return the address of the function
descriptor.  That *is* the value of a function pointer, after all.  I guess
I'm still not following.

  --david
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