Re: [PATCH 3/7] objtool: Add support for intra-function calls

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Thu Apr 02 2020 - 13:28:06 EST


On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 10:49:19AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 01:53:49PM +0100, Julien Thierry wrote:
> > Hi Alexandre,
> >
> > I ran into the limitation of intra-function call for the arm64 support but
> > didn't take the time to make a clean patch to support them properly.
>
> Can you give an example of where arm64 uses intra-function calls? It
> sounds sketchy to me :-) Is it really needed/useful?

BTW, I have a vague memory of discussing this before, so I apologize if
I'm repeating myself ;-)

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Josh