[cxx-abi-dev] comparing type_infos (was Re: Patch for throw/catch problems)

[Richard Henderson]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:18:33AM +0100, Jason Merrill wrote:
> I notice that the old HP ia64 EH document specifies that entries in the
> type table should be GP-relative, which doesn't work if the type_info might
> be coming from some other object;

Well, I suppose technically it could work -- for IA-64, ld.so knows
the value of the GP (from DT_PLTGOT), so you _could_ have a dynamic
relocation of type R_IA64_GPREL64.  

But I don't think this is a spectacular idea, and no other system
could do this.


r~