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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 23:47:09 -0400
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PPC? (Was: Re: [RFC] /proc/ksyms change for IA64)
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> > The IA64 use of descriptors for function pointers has bitten ksymoops.
> > For those not familiar with IA64, &func points to a descriptor
> > containing { &code, &data_context }.
> 
> That sounds suspiciously like what I remember from PPC. How is this solved  
> on the PPC side?

This isnt the case on ppc32, but is at the moment on ppc64.

Anton