Re: [Libunwind-devel] Power Libunwind

[Andreas Schwab]

"David Mosberger-Tang" <address@hidden> writes:

> Why is that a problem?  On ia64, we also return the address of the function
> descriptor.  That *is* the value of a function pointer, after all.  I guess
> I'm still not following.

The difference is: on ia64 the value of a function symbol is the address
function itself (in the .text section), on ppc64 it points to the
function descriptor (in the .opd section).  That provides all sorts of
nastly surprises.

Andreas.

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