"David Mosberger-Tang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
The difference is: on ia64 the value of a function symbol is the address function itself (in the .text section), on ppc64 it points to the function descriptor (in the .opd section). That provides all sorts of nastly surprises. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Libunwind-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libunwind-devel
