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author | peter <peter@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-06-13 10:58:39 +0000 |
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committer | peter <peter@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-06-13 10:58:39 +0000 |
commit | f10fa038c14063eaf2da32ed734e644e5f569694 (patch) | |
tree | 88aef8097c80f09c2f725d61b6da4d433a595a61 /usr.sbin | |
parent | 2514663dd721b9ac234d35a4dac65dfc457ff6bc (diff) | |
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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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