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Re: [PATCH] S/390: Fix two issues with the IFUNC optimized mem* routines


On 29/08/12 18:24, H.J. Lu wrote:
> IFUNC symbol is accessed via GOT.  An IFUNC function may have
> relocatons, but it shouldn't use GOT to get the resolved symbol.

The question is whether we perhaps want/could get rid of this limitation by e.g. doing the
relocation processing in two passes. A first walk over the relocations could ignore the IFUNC relocs
and a second walk could only invoke the resolver functions.

Bye,

-Andreas-


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