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Date:   Wed, 28 Nov 2018 22:36:31 -0600
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] x86: dynamic indirect call promotion
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 07:24:08PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> To be clear, that wasn’t a NAK.  It was merely a “this is alarming.”
> 
> Hey Josh - you could potentially do the same hack to generate the
> static call tables. Take that, objtool.

Ha, after witnessing Nadav's glorious hack, I considered that.  But I
didn't see a way to pull it off, because asm macro conditionals don't
seem to have a way to test for a regex (or at least a named prefix) for
the call target.

I'd need a way to detect "call __static_call_tramp_<whatever>".

-- 
Josh