[PATCH] Prologue support

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Fri Nov 28 11:07:48 PST 2014


On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 03:20:11PM +0000, Ben Gamari wrote:
>   3. Runtime metadata: Allow a compiler to insert data for use by the
>      runtime during execution. GHC is one example of a compiler that
>      needs this functionality for its tables-next-to-code functionality.

Out of curiosity, how does GHC deal with platforms that already require
prefixing functions with some data? PowerPC uses that with the new ABI,
IIRC.

Joerg



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