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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Improved linker-debugger interface
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Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:56:00 -0000
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Frank> It depends.  If it's out of the hot path, a five or eight-byte noop
Frank> may be OK.  Measurements as to the actual impact would help.

Considering that this is in dlopen, I am not concerned.
It is already making dummy function calls along this path, also for
debuggers.

Tom