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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Umesh Kalappa <umesh.kalappa0@gmail.com>,
	Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com>,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PowerPC 64]r12 is not updated to GEP when control transferred from virtual thunk function .
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 09:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190520094820.GO6820@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190520083950.GS31586@gate.crashing.org>

On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 03:39:50AM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> But it means it needs to make a stub for every global entry point that
> is used?

Mostly.  Calls via function pointer don't (*), nor do you need stubs
when generating inline PLT calls.  I'll note that use of the global
entry point for direct calls is closely associated with needing a PLT
entry, and the stubs we're talking about here are similar to the code
other architectures put in their .plt section.

*) The exception is when a non-PIC executable initialises a function
pointer in read-only memory to a function defined outside the
executable.  This case requires a special stub in the executable to
serve as the address of the function.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-20  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-15 15:27 Umesh Kalappa
2019-05-15 16:05 ` Eric Botcazou
2019-05-15 17:47   ` Umesh Kalappa
2019-05-15 18:31     ` Eric Botcazou
2019-05-15 23:52       ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-05-16  3:30         ` Umesh Kalappa
2019-05-16 12:43           ` Umesh Kalappa
2019-05-16 22:52             ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-05-17  3:58               ` Umesh Kalappa
2019-05-20  6:50               ` Alan Modra
2019-05-20  7:55                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-05-20  8:19                   ` Alan Modra
2019-05-20  8:39                     ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-05-20  9:48                       ` Alan Modra [this message]
2019-05-15 23:37 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-05-17  6:22   ` Kewen.Lin
2019-05-17  7:24     ` Eric Botcazou
2019-05-17  9:29       ` Kewen.Lin

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