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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch] make ELF functions static

To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch] make ELF functions static
From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:44:51 +0200
Cc: xen-ppc-devel <xen-ppc-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Hopefully long term the 32-on-64 work that is going on will lead to ELF
>> code which doesn't need to be multiply compiled.
> 
> Why? It's simpler to compile it twice. I already posted draft patches to
> do this, simply introducing an elf32.c that #define-s the relevant
> symbols to alternative names and that only gets compiled when 64-bit
> arches need it for supporting 32-bit binaries.

My rewritten libxc domain builder takes a simliar approach ...

cheers,

  Gerd

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