> Yes. ISO C only defines pointer arithmetic with in arrays.
> I believe gnu C makes it a well defined case.
Nope, it doesn't.
There was a miscompilation on PPC some time ago, that is why
HIDE_RELOC() and __pa_symbol() was implemented.
>
> Currently we do not appear to have any problems on i386.
> But I have at least one case of code that is shared between
> i386 and x86_64 and it is appropriate to use __pa_symbol on
> x86_64.
>
> So I added __pa_symbol for that practical reason.
>
> I would have no problems with generalizing this but I wanted to
> at least make it possible to use the concept on i386.
No problem with that, just use HIDE_RELOC
-Andi
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