From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb@eskimo.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: .tc entries question
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:25:30 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060809135530.GD7210@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.4.58.0608090611460.14141@eskimo.com>
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:15:06AM -0700, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> Another 64-bit Elf question, this one about the TOC. In many examples,
> for defining toc entries, there is some syntax like this:
>
> name_to_refer_to_this:
> .tc seemingly_unused_name[TC], data_here
>
> I haven't figured out what the purpose of the name immediately preceding
> [TC] is. In fact, it seems that in most cases it can simply be left out.
> Is this just a holdover from a previous binary format, or does
> "seemingly_unused_name" actually get used in some fashion?
It is just a syntax we inherited from PowerPC64 XCOFF.
seemingly_unused_name and the bracketed class qualifier are completely
ingored.
--
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-09 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-24 4:01 Why the "opd" section? Jonathan Bartlett
2006-07-25 2:15 ` Alan Modra
2006-07-25 13:23 ` Jonathan Bartlett
2006-07-25 14:06 ` Alan Modra
2006-07-28 18:19 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-08-09 13:15 ` .tc entries question Jonathan Bartlett
2006-08-09 13:55 ` Alan Modra [this message]
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