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Re: elf64-hppa branches
- To: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: elf64-hppa branches
- From: Alan Modra <alan at linuxcare dot com dot au>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 11:06:27 +1000 (EST)
- cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> > Also, I think absolute calls should go via a stub if they
> > are to a symbol in a dynamic library.
> I strongly disagree.
OK, I'll remove this bit, and steal some of your words below for a
comment.
> First, we should never be using absolute calls.
>
> Second, in the extremely rare case where an absolute call is useful it is
> far more likely that what was intended was an absolute call to the final
> target without a stub in the middle. In fact, it is highly likely the
> absolute call can't reach a local stub anyway.
>
> All the changes except redirecting absolutes to local stubs is OK.
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