question about symbols and function locations

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Aug 16, 2005, at 10:44 AM, Linas Vepstas wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:24:55AM -0700, Tim Bird was heard to remark:
>> On ppc64 the function address matches
>> the data address for the call, but the call site is in the
>> range of the weak symbols.
>
> I beleive the ppc ABI makes use of a struct with three pointers
> in it to identify a called subroutine.

See http://penguinppc.org/dev/#library for the ppc64 ABI and related 
docs.

-Hollis