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Re: [rfc] Fix problem with (maybe) non-relocated .opd section on powerpc64-linux

A Friday 16 May 2008 15:51:04, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 03:09:32PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > ANOFFSET is also a obj_section thing, but we have target sections
> > in the convert_from_func_ptr callback ...
> >
> > Why do we need to keep section data in both the target and the
> > objfile?
>
> Nowadays, I don't think we do.  Pedro has a patch to remove some of
> it, but I think we could go even further - probably by eliminating
> 99% of the distinction between exec-file and symbol-file.  Not all of
> it, since some is still clearly useful.

Hmmm, I'll post my dormant patch as an RFC in a sec, as a new thread.

-- 
Pedro Alves
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