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Re: Patch to allow ARM dynamic linker to fix up PC24 relocs...

To: Scott Bambrough <scottb at netwinder dot org>
Subject: Re: Patch to allow ARM dynamic linker to fix up PC24 relocs...
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>
Date: 21 Dec 1999 08:27:03 -0800
Cc: libc-hacker mailing list <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <385FA73A.25126E04@netwinder.org>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Scott Bambrough <scottb@netwinder.org> writes:

> The attached patch adds a cache flush just after the readonly protection
> is restored to .text.  I've done this in generic code, because the cache
> flush is an extremely expensive operation on the ARM.  We don't want to
> do this after every fixup, and only if we do fixups.  The patch as
> written should only affect the ARM (or anyone else who defines
> CLEAR_CACHE).  For all other targets it will disappear after
> pre-processing.  This patch has the fix for the problem Phil Blundell
> pointed out.  I've tested it and it seems to work.

I've already added this code to 2.1.3.  Could you update your tree?

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