[ia64-abi] IA-64 ABI meeting results

[Ulrich Drepper]

Cary Coutant <cary at cup.hp.com> 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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