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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:04:27 +1100

> This is actually different - it is generated by the compiler.  I am not
> sure why we only get them on PowerPC.

I think it has to do with how function descriptors work on powerpc.

Code references to static (local) things work different from how
global scope references work.