From: Timothy Wall <twall@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 03:26:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Update elf64 aix5 comments.
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=10d1e03a7a13b95b7293adf45875bbb15ace2011;p=binutils-gdb.git

Update elf64 aix5 comments.
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diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 81c12980a1b..c74b7937bf6 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-02-26  Timothy Wall  <twall@cygnus.com>
+
+	* elfxx-ia64.c (elfNN_ia64_aix_add_symbol_hook): Remove obsolete
+	comments. 
+
 2001-02-26  Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
 
 	* coffcode.h (styp_to_sec_flags) [COFF_WITH_PE version]: Tidy
diff --git a/bfd/elfxx-ia64.c b/bfd/elfxx-ia64.c
index b8705c18386..77d20221d9a 100644
--- a/bfd/elfxx-ia64.c
+++ b/bfd/elfxx-ia64.c
@@ -1182,20 +1182,11 @@ elfNN_ia64_aix_add_symbol_hook (abfd, info, sym, namep, flagsp, secp, valp)
     {
       int i;
       
-      /* SHN_MONTEREY_SYSCALL (Description from IBM):
-	 Special symbols on AIX; if the value is non-zero, the value
-         should be put in the gp member of the function descriptor.  the
-         function address member should be set to the address of the entry
-         point of the user-space portion of the system call (epc insn in a
-         priviledged page).  If the symbol value is zero, look in the special
-         table for extended system calls.  The number for extended system
-         calls will come from that table.  The index is set when the linker
-         sees an export file that contains the syscall attribute after an
-         exported symbol.  Kernel extensions indicate extended system calls
-         they define by having STO_MONTEREY_SYSCALL in their st_other symbol
-         table member. This is used by the system loader to add extended
-         system calls to its table, which is subsequently provided to the
-         runtime linker at each process startup.  */
+      /* SHN_AIX_SYSCALL: Treat this as any other symbol.  The special symbol
+	 is only relevant when compiling code for extended system calls.
+	 Replace the "special" section with .text, if possible. */
+      /* FIXME need to determine the proper section instead of defaulting to
+	 .text.  */
       for (i = 1; i < elf_elfheader (abfd)->e_shnum; i++)
 	{
 	  asection * sec = bfd_section_from_elf_index (abfd, i);
@@ -1207,8 +1198,6 @@ elfNN_ia64_aix_add_symbol_hook (abfd, info, sym, namep, flagsp, secp, valp)
 	    }
 	}
 
-      /* FIXME need to determine the proper section instead of defaulting to
-	 .text.  */
       if (*secp == NULL)
 	*secp = bfd_abs_section_ptr;