Re: use ELF sections for get_wchan()

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 15:51:27 EST


At some point in the past, I wrote:
>> I noticed a bunch of "FIXME: this depends on the order of these
>> functions" comments in/around wchan calculations.
>> So I decided I'd remove the dependency on the order of the functions by
>> dumping them all into an ELF section with clear delimiters.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 07:28:15AM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> I like it. At the moment wchan is next to useless because everything
> ends up in down* or something similar.

down_*() aren't covered by this yet; I'll do a sweep for that and repost.


-- wli
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