>>> On 17.02.11 at 16:49, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Jan Hubicka <hubi...@ucw.cz> wrote: >>> > According to Mozilla folks however REL+RELA scheme used by EABI leads >>> > to significandly smaller libxul.so size >>> > >>> > According to http://glandium.org/blog/?p=1177 the difference is about >>> > 4-5MB >>> > (out of approximately 20-30MB shared lib) >>> >>> This is orthogonal to x32 psABI. >> >> Understood. I am just pointing out that x86-64 Mozilla suffers from startup >> problems (extra 5MB of disk read needed) compared to both x86 and ARM EABI >> because x86-64 ABI is RELA only. If x86-64 ABI was REL+RELA like EABI is, we >> would not have this problem here. >> > > If people want to see REL+RELA in x32, they have to contribute codes.
That's exactly the wrong way round: First the specification has to allow for (but not require) it, and only then does it make sense to write code. Jan
