Re: [arm-gnu] how to locate a const struct in memory (ld question)

["Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account)" <aklists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, May 10, 2010 09:35:21 pm Charles Manning wrote:
> The way I'd tackle this is through a double indirection.

> struct func_table *table_ptr = *((struct func_table **) ADDR_OF_POINTER);

> Now have local wrapper functions
> 
> int func_a(int x)
> {
> 	return table_ptr->func_a(x);
> }

I looked at doing it that way, but the generated code is larger since it must 
load the pointer and dereference it to get to the function pointer.

I guess this is the typical portability/features tradeoff. :-)

-A.