[LLVMdev] Implementing the hotpatch attribute for X86

[Anton Korobeynikov]

> I don't know how GCC handles this case. They may do the padding in the
> compiler. You are going to have to look at exactly what GCC does and
> whatever hotpatch loader Wine uses to figure out what to do, but it
> will most likely be incompatible with the Windows implementation.
Why? I don't see how this might be incompatible with what MS linker does;
in any case the end result should be the same.

gcc just emits series of bytes before the function (16 in 32 bit code,
32 - in 64 bit code).
0xcccccccc is used as a filler.

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With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University