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Re: Implementing long branch stubs with PLTs

From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
To: Will Newton <will dot newton at gmail dot com>
Cc: Christophe LYON <christophe dot lyon at st dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:52:12 +0930
Subject: Re: Implementing long branch stubs with PLTs
References: <87a5b0800907160912u57a77cb8x977c713abf58430e@mail.gmail.com> <4A603F37.90607@st.com> <87a5b0800907210633q3b7f9385l7c43837f450a95b1@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 02:33:24PM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
> It looks to me as if elf32-hppa and
> elf64-ppc do not create long branch stubs to PLT entries so avoid this
> issue in that way.

Yes.  Both of these targets generate multiple PLT call stubs if all
calls to a given function won't reach a single PLT call stub.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

References:
- Implementing long branch stubs with PLTs
  - From: Will Newton
- Re: Implementing long branch stubs with PLTs
  - From: Christophe LYON
- Re: Implementing long branch stubs with PLTs
  - From: Will Newton

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