On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 08:59 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 15:45 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > if (grub_strcmp (name, "grub_mod_init") == 0) > > > mod->init = (void (*) (grub_dl_t)) sym->st_value; > > > > > > This won't work on ia64 AFAIK. > > > > Can't this problem be solved with an architecture-specific macro? > > > > FWIW, 64-bit PowerPC also uses function descriptors. They look something > > like: > > long code_address > > long table_of_contents > > long unused > > > > The table_of_contents (TOC) value needs to be placed into r2 when > > jumping at code_address (and of course the old one needs to be restored > > when returning). > Indeed, same issue. > > >I assume IA64 is similar here, and given that, a > > module_jump function implemented in assembly by each architecture would > > solve this problem. > I'd prefer modules to export pointers. Seems to be easier to deal.
I don't know what you mean; please elaborate (with pseudo-code if possible). -Hollis _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
