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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] PPC: remove the ELF section hack
From: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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On 6/12/09, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
>
>  On 12.06.2009, at 20:58, Blue Swirl wrote:
>
>
> > GEN_HANDLER{,2} generate a structure in special ELF section. This may
> > not work in all cases.
> >
> > Separate the structure from op function, later change the ELF section
> > hack to a normal C table.
> >
> > This passes my tests.
> >
>
>  Have you tried this on PPC hosts? IIRC malc put in a configure hack to make
> PPC hosts work with the elf section hacks which should be obsolete with your
> patch, right? So you can remove the hack as well.

Right, that commit was r6967.