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Re: Vtable emission (Notes from the 14 July meeting)
- To: cxx-abi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Vtable emission (Notes from the 14 July meeting)
- From: dehnert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jim Dehnert)
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 18:46:45 -0700 (PDT)
> From owner-cxx-abi-sgi@cthulhu Fri Jul 16 16:58:43 1999
> From: "Matt Austern" <austern@isolde>
>
> Open issue: the elf format allows only 16 bits for section identifiers,
> and typically two of those bits are already taken up for other things.
> So we've only got 16k sections available, which is unacceptable if we're
> creating lots of small sections.
I don't understand the comment about two bits being taken up for other
things. There are 256 indices reserved for special sections (e.g.
SHN_COMMON). And a data/text section typically comes with an
associated relocation and potentially debug sections. Is that what
you're referring to?
- Jim Dehnert x3-4272
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