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Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations
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Daniel Jacobowitz |
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Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations |
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Wed, 5 Jun 2002 19:05:37 -0400 |
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 07:03:51PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings! Many thanks again!
>
> This works without problem! Hooray!
>
> 1) Is it possible to know for sure that a smaller range could be
> flushed safely?
I believe glibc has an "aux" mechanism to convey this. I don't know
how it works, though. Geoff?
> 2) Any other machines supported by binutils which require similar
> flushing? Assembly instructions?
Almost every machine has some requirements here; if x86 does not expose
them than that is probably a remnant of its CISC beginnings. You will
need to look through glibc's loader code, I expect.
> 3) Separately, do you know what the alignment requirements are for
> sparc32 user code on a sparc64 system? I'm getting a SIGBUS on
> Debian sparc, but the relevant addresses seem to be aligned on 8
> byte boundaries, which I thought should be plenty.
Probably again a cache issue.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
- [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Camm Maguire, 2002/06/03
- [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2002/06/03
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Camm Maguire, 2002/06/04
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Geoff Keating, 2002/06/04
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2002/06/04
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Camm Maguire, 2002/06/04
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2002/06/04
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Camm Maguire, 2002/06/05
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations,
Daniel Jacobowitz <=
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Camm Maguire, 2002/06/05
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2002/06/05
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Camm Maguire, 2002/06/06
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2002/06/07
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Jason R Thorpe, 2002/06/07
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Paul Koning, 2002/06/07
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Camm Maguire, 2002/06/10
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: BFD relocations, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2002/06/10
- [Gcl-devel] Flushing the d-cache (was Re: BFD relocations), Camm Maguire, 2002/06/14
- [Gcl-devel] Re: Flushing the d-cache (was Re: BFD relocations), Philip Blundell, 2002/06/14