[Gcl-devel] Re: recent commit

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On 28 Aug 2003 21:00:54 -0400, Camm Maguire <address@hidden> said:

  Camm> Greetings!  This sounds like the sort of sidestepping of the
  Camm> function descriptors that I was seeking initally.  Can you
  Camm> elaborate?  I can dump the actual address, but don't I need to
  Camm> find where these will be in the function descriptor mapping at
  Camm> runtime to match the calling convention?

No, they won't be remapped when starting the unexec'd binary (that's
the issue, in fact, otherwise you wouldn't have a problem).  Just
dumping the memory areas containing the function descriptors and
making them part of the unexec'd binary _ought_ to work.

  Camm> Am I the only one with these problems on this platform?

It's the first time I heard of it.

  Camm> BTW, Debian hppa works fine.

Yes, that's not surprising.  HP-PA handles function descriptors
differently (mostly in worse ways; this is one area where the HP-PA
way of doing things happens to work out better).

        --david