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On 06/12/2014 09:36 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> If we were to implement both, maybe we'd actually want to provide
> something like:
> 
> struct vdso_entry {
>   unsigned long vdso_entry_struct_size;  /* so we can add fields later on */
>   void *func;
>   unsigned int max_stack;  /* zero if not known */
> };
> 

How different is this really from the .dynsym table -- other than that
you have to find the latter via the dynamic segment?

The hash part is just to speed up lookup...

	-hpa