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entry/return, assignment of the args to registers (say 8 instructions all up), and perhaps take advantage of already-calculated partial expressions. Actually it took a bit of messing around to reduce the overhead of this patch to that level.

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- Make relocation symbols global so we can use them outside start.S

Why should they relocation symbols ever be used outside of actually relocating?

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Well since relocation is moving out of start.S to a generic library which is not architecture-specific, we must make these symbols available to it. Otherwise the generic code doesn't know what it is relocating.

Understood. My point is that they should not be made available to code ot=

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than the relocation code.

Oh I see. Yes of course.

Regards,
Simon

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Regards,
Simon

Amicalement,
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Albert.