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    SubjectRe: [RFC, PATCH] Fixup COMPAT_VDSO to work with CONFIG_PARAVIRT
    Jan Beulich wrote:
    >> So I guess the right thing to do is relocate the dynamic stuff via
    >> PT_DYNAMIC, and relocate the symtab if its present.
    >>
    >
    > Symtab should also be deduced from program headers.
    >

    Learning more all the time..

    > I'm actually surprised this got re-implemented from scratch, when my patch
    > already had both variants (one just #ifdef-ed out), and was tested in both
    > forms (actually, I first implemented the ELF form, and only after seeing the
    > bloat it added to the sources I came up her than with the second variant, which in
    > the end unfortunately didn't add significantly less bloat to the Makefile.
    >

    This wasn't re-implemented from scratch - I did this in another lifetime:

    http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2005-08/msg00284.html

    Either way of doing things is fine with me - I would just prefer that if
    it has to get down and dirty, we do it in source rather than hidden in a
    makefile. But just a personal preference.

    Zach
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