From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: comeau@comeaucomputing.com,
Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] nm "L symbols"
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 05:16:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110504121651.GA29768@dinah> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ip4ppn$5um$1@panix3.panix.com>
Greg Comeau <comeau@panix.com> once said:
> man nm shows a symbol type of L that is possible denoting it as
> a "leaf function text segment symbol". Often a leaf function
> is distinguished by being at the end of a call hierarchy and
> can sometimes yield difference in code generation regarding
> stack space and such. Is this the case here? If so,
> then a L is otherwise a T (and an l a t), or is there some
> other differences?
You've got it. The Plan 9 linkers for RISC-y
architectures will output these leaf symbols.
Anthony
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2011-05-04 11:40 Greg Comeau
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