* [parisc-linux] Joke of the day for PA userspace hackers...
@ 2002-12-27 2:49 Carlos O'Donell
2002-12-27 3:01 ` John David Anglin
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From: Carlos O'Donell @ 2002-12-27 2:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: parisc-linux
parisc,
Two programmers are seated at a bar hacking on PARISC,
when Joe turns to Jill and says:
Joe: "I tried calling the function by it's address"
Jill: "Just lop off the first 2 bits."
Joe: "Hey! It worked?! What did that do?"
Jill: "I don't know, but it's a clever fix, without a changelog,
that I keep seeing in debian binutils and gdb code"
*ba dump ching*
Function descriptors :)
c.
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* Re: [parisc-linux] Joke of the day for PA userspace hackers...
2002-12-27 2:49 [parisc-linux] Joke of the day for PA userspace hackers Carlos O'Donell
@ 2002-12-27 3:01 ` John David Anglin
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From: John David Anglin @ 2002-12-27 3:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Carlos O'Donell; +Cc: parisc-linux
> parisc,
>
> Two programmers are seated at a bar hacking on PARISC,
> when Joe turns to Jill and says:
>
> Joe: "I tried calling the function by it's address"
> Jill: "Just lop off the first 2 bits."
> Joe: "Hey! It worked?! What did that do?"
> Jill: "I don't know, but it's a clever fix, without a changelog,
> that I keep seeing in debian binutils and gdb code"
>
> *ba dump ching*
>
> Function descriptors :)
Won't work on hppa64 :)) Our ctor/dtor pointers are not function pointers.
Dave
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J. David Anglin dave.anglin@nrc.ca
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