Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: ia64 function descriptors and unexec

[Andreas Schwab]

[removing emacs-devel from cc: since it's off-topic there.]

Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:

> Far better than trying to probe ld.so's function descriptor table, I
> should rather ammend the lisp compiler to write a static function
> structure into each produced C source file before compilation, with the
> structure's pointer element statically initialized to the static
> function in the same file.  I then use the address for this structure at
> runtime in setting the lisp symbol's function definition.  This should
> work, right?

I have rechecked the specs, and actually the key point isn't static
vs. dynamic assignment, but rather local vs. dynamic symbols.  A function
descriptor for a symbol in a shared library will be allocated by the
dynamic linker, whereas those for symbols in the executable are allocated
by the static linker.  So you only have to make sure that all function
pointers in the executable only refer to functions therein.

Andreas.

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