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Mon Dec 5 13:53:56 CET 2011
entry/return, assignment of the args to registers (say 8 instructions
all up), and perhaps take advantage of already-calculated partial
expressions. Actually it took a bit of messing around to reduce the
overhead of this patch to that level.
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>>>> - Make relocation symbols global so we can use them outside start.S
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>>> Why should they relocation symbols ever be used outside of actually
>>> relocating?
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>> Well since relocation is moving out of start.S to a generic library
>> which is not architecture-specific, we must make these symbols
>> available to it. Otherwise the generic code doesn't know what it is
>> relocating.
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> Understood. My point is that they should not be made available to code ot=
her
> than the relocation code.
Oh I see. Yes of course.
Regards,
Simon
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>> Regards,
>> Simon
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> Amicalement,
> --
> Albert.
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