From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Wichmann, Mats D" Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 16:37:48 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Question about .opd section Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org The gnu toolchain (well, binutils) emits a .opd section for architectures which use function descriptors - it's not unique to Itanium. But I can't find much information about it. Google has been unhelpful (to me, anyway) on this one. It's described as holding function descriptors, but I'm not clear who uses this information - is this used at runtime? Is this section considered normal/required for Linux/ia64? I'm asking because it wasn't in the Itanium psABI, and thus didn't make it into the current version of the Itanium LSB spec; our application checker tool is flagging this as an unknown section. Thanks, Mats