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Re: x32 psABI draft version 0.2

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz> wrote:
>> > According to Mozilla folks however REL+RELA scheme used by EABI leads
>> > to significandly smaller libxul.so size
>> >
>> > According to http://glandium.org/blog/?p=1177 the difference is about 4-5MB
>> > (out of approximately 20-30MB shared lib)
>>
>> This is orthogonal to x32 psABI.
>
> Understood. ?I am just pointing out that x86-64 Mozilla suffers from startup
> problems (extra 5MB of disk read needed) compared to both x86 and ARM EABI
> because x86-64 ABI is RELA only. If x86-64 ABI was REL+RELA like EABI is, we
> would not have this problem here.
>

If people want to see REL+RELA in x32, they have to contribute codes.

-- 
H.J.
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