From: Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Fwd: Bug#129641: mozilla illegal instruction fault on IA64 (with a fix)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:32:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805883@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805877@msgid-missing>
>This seems to be because in recent versions of g++ - since 3.0.2 according to
>the ChangeLog - class vtables are arrays of function descriptors (which are
>(code address, gp value) pairs) rather than arrays of function pointers (which
>are pointers to function descriptors).
This change was required by the C++ ABI. If was always the intent to do
things this way, it just took a while to get around to it because there was
more compiler work than people available to do it.
Jim
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-18 20:32 UTC|newest]
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2002-01-18 2:54 [Linux-ia64] Fwd: Bug#129641: mozilla illegal instruction fault on IA64 (with a fix) Matt Chapman
2002-01-18 20:32 ` Jim Wilson [this message]
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