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Subject: Re: x32 psABI draft version 0.2
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>, 	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>, x32-abi@googlegroups.com, 	Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz> wrote:
>> > According to Mozilla folks however REL+RELA scheme used by EABI leads
>> > to significandly smaller libxul.so size
>> >
>> > According to http://glandium.org/blog/?p=3D1177 the difference is abou=
t 4-5MB
>> > (out of approximately 20-30MB shared lib)
>>
>> This is orthogonal to x32 psABI.
>
> Understood. =A0I am just pointing out that x86-64 Mozilla suffers from st=
artup
> problems (extra 5MB of disk read needed) compared to both x86 and ARM EABI
> because x86-64 ABI is RELA only. If x86-64 ABI was REL+RELA like EABI is,=
 we
> would not have this problem here.
>

If people want to see REL+RELA in x32, they have to contribute codes.

--=20
H.J.