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2008/10/20 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>:
> I believe MIPS has the same issues as PPC. Doesn't it use a trampoline
> too?

No it doesn't seem to. If I'm not wrong, MIPS uses only the elf
relocation table to relocate
its addresses.

> I want to make the generic code handle trampolines a bit better.

Do you think there could be a generic approach to handles these trampolines?