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| 13-Jun-2001 |
Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> |
With this commit, I hereby pronounce gensetdefs past its use-by date.
Replace the a.out emulation of 'struct linker_set' with something a little more flexible. <sys/linker_set.h> now provides macro
With this commit, I hereby pronounce gensetdefs past its use-by date.
Replace the a.out emulation of 'struct linker_set' with something a little more flexible. <sys/linker_set.h> now provides macros for accessing elements and completely hides the implementation.
The linker_set.h macros have been on the back burner in various forms since 1998 and has ideas and code from Mike Smith (SET_FOREACH()), John Polstra (ELF clue) and myself (cleaned up API and the conversion of the rest of the kernel to use it).
The macros declare a strongly typed set. They return elements with the type that you declare the set with, rather than a generic void *.
For ELF, we use the magic ld symbols (__start_<setname> and __stop_<setname>). Thanks to Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> for the trick about how to force ld to provide them for kld's.
For a.out, we use the old linker_set struct.
NOTE: the item lists are no longer null terminated. This is why the code impact is high in certain areas.
The runtime linker has a new method to find the linker set boundaries depending on which backend format is in use.
linker sets are still module/kld unfriendly and should never be used for anything that may be modular one day.
Reviewed by: eivind
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