fwd re: vtable format

[Jason Merrill]

Richard Henderson says there's no way to write the vtables the way we
decided, at least with the current gABI...

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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 14:27:27 -0800
From: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus.com>
To: Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus.com>
Cc: law at cygnus.com, Alex Samuel <samuel at codesourcery.com>,
        gcc-patches at gcc.gnu.org, wilson at cygnus.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: C data layout tests for IA-64 ABI
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On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 02:12:10PM -0800, Jason Merrill wrote:
> The ia64 C++ ABI committee has decided to use the descriptors.  If this
> doesn't make sense (i.e. if there's no way to express such a thing to the
> assembler), now's the time to let us know...:)

You mean you want the vtable to look like

	struct { void *code, *gp } vtable[];

There are no suitable IA-64 relocations to express this.


r~
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