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| author | Timothy Wall <twall@alum.mit.edu> | 2001-02-27 03:26:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Timothy Wall <twall@alum.mit.edu> | 2001-02-27 03:26:47 +0000 |
| commit | 10d1e03a7a13b95b7293adf45875bbb15ace2011 (patch) | |
| tree | 7dcf5b8b9a6002e64d4d9e466f35baa6d550eb9b /bfd | |
| parent | 2bc551c701a8e359ab162f55808a29773d52f0e1 (diff) | |
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Update elf64 aix5 comments.
Diffstat (limited to 'bfd')
| -rw-r--r-- | bfd/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | bfd/elfxx-ia64.c | 21 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog index 81c1298..c74b793 100644 --- a/bfd/ChangeLog +++ b/bfd/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2001-02-26 Timothy Wall <twall@cygnus.com> + + * elfxx-ia64.c (elfNN_ia64_aix_add_symbol_hook): Remove obsolete + comments. + 2001-02-26 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> * coffcode.h (styp_to_sec_flags) [COFF_WITH_PE version]: Tidy diff --git a/bfd/elfxx-ia64.c b/bfd/elfxx-ia64.c index b8705c1..77d2022 100644 --- a/bfd/elfxx-ia64.c +++ b/bfd/elfxx-ia64.c @@ -1182,20 +1182,11 @@ elfNN_ia64_aix_add_symbol_hook (abfd, info, sym, namep, flagsp, secp, valp) { int i; - /* SHN_MONTEREY_SYSCALL (Description from IBM): - Special symbols on AIX; if the value is non-zero, the value - should be put in the gp member of the function descriptor. the - function address member should be set to the address of the entry - point of the user-space portion of the system call (epc insn in a - priviledged page). If the symbol value is zero, look in the special - table for extended system calls. The number for extended system - calls will come from that table. The index is set when the linker - sees an export file that contains the syscall attribute after an - exported symbol. Kernel extensions indicate extended system calls - they define by having STO_MONTEREY_SYSCALL in their st_other symbol - table member. This is used by the system loader to add extended - system calls to its table, which is subsequently provided to the - runtime linker at each process startup. */ + /* SHN_AIX_SYSCALL: Treat this as any other symbol. The special symbol + is only relevant when compiling code for extended system calls. + Replace the "special" section with .text, if possible. */ + /* FIXME need to determine the proper section instead of defaulting to + .text. */ for (i = 1; i < elf_elfheader (abfd)->e_shnum; i++) { asection * sec = bfd_section_from_elf_index (abfd, i); @@ -1207,8 +1198,6 @@ elfNN_ia64_aix_add_symbol_hook (abfd, info, sym, namep, flagsp, secp, valp) } } - /* FIXME need to determine the proper section instead of defaulting to - .text. */ if (*secp == NULL) *secp = bfd_abs_section_ptr; |