Re: [ia64-abi] IA-64 ABI meeting results

[Cary Coutant <cary@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>- How are the reserved section indices (0xff00-0xffff) treated outside
>  the original symbol table fields?  Should they remain reserved,
>  leaving a hole in the section number space?  Should we have no
>  reserved full indices, since they're only (currently) used in symbol
>  table indices?  Should we reserve different indices at the high end
>  of the 32-bit index space?
>
>  The resolution (as I recall faintly) is to reserve new values at the
>  high end of the range, and avoid the hole.  Am I correct?

My recollection is that we decided that the reserved values are reserved 
only for the 16-bit st_shndx field of the original symbol table entry. 
Extended section table indices can go as high as 0xffffffff.

-cary