Re: [ia64-abi] IA-64 ABI meeting results
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Re: [ia64-abi] IA-64 ABI meeting results
- To: Cary Coutant <cary@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [ia64-abi] IA-64 ABI meeting results
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 Mar 2000 16:51:27 -0800
Cary Coutant <cary@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 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 is right, this is at least what we concluded lacking cases where
this might cause problems.
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