From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cary Coutant Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:26:57 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] IA64 ELF header question... Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >Since PPC64 and IA64 share the use of function >descriptors, I thought I'd check with people here on how this >was solved for IA64. Anyone have any ideas I can use? PA-RISC also uses function descriptors. On HP-UX, for both PA-RISC and IA-64, the e_entry field is the address of the code entry point itself, rather than the address of a function descriptor. Our dynamic loader initializes its own gp value, and when it's time for the dynamic loader to call the application's entry point, it knows what the gp value should be, so we don't need a function descriptor. Cary Coutant HP-UX Runtime Architect