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

To: "Hollis Blanchard" <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Ian Campbell" <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch] make ELF functions static
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:38:36 +0100
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>>> Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 30.08.06 09:03 >>>
>On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 16:15 -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>> Hi Ian, these functions should be static. It would only be a style issue
>> except PowerPC actually #includes elf.c twice, to support both 32- and
>> 64-bit ELF binaries. Please apply.
>
>Unfortunately they are referenced from outside this file
>(xen/arch/x86/domain_build.c). 
>
>I'm not sure what a good short term fix for you would be. Perhaps some
>preprocessor/CFLAGS magic to name them xen_elfnote32_foo and
>xen_elfnote64_foo when compiling powerpc?
>
>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.

Jan

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