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Subject: Re: RFA: Support for Thumb in dynamic objects
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@gcc.gnu.org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
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On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 17:33, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> It's hard to come up with a good name for manipulation that's basically
> unnecessary.  It's trying to do two 32-bit reads if possible instead of
> a bunch of smaller reads; we could leave this to the client instead.
> 
> This patch calls it WORD_ADDRESS, since that descrbes the use.  It
> could be throttled down to read 2-byte pieces for Thumb, and to do the
> read later (i.e. when we see a bl/blx); I'll leave that for another
> day.  OK?

Yes, thanks.

R.