>Al posted the following:
>
>; cat >a.c <<'EOF'
>const char foo[] __attribute__ ((__section__(".blah"))) = "";
>const char * const bar __attribute__((__section__(".blah"))) = "";
>EOF
>; gcc -m32 -S a.c
>; gcc -m64 -S a.c
>a.c:2: e
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:14:11AM +, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >I cannot see any other way out of this than to loose all the newly added
> >consts. We have to different behavior across platforms to find a suitable
> >solution that is reliable.
> >
> >[Kept rest of mail as I added Jan - hope he have
>I cannot see any other way out of this than to loose all the newly added
>consts. We have to different behavior across platforms to find a suitable
>solution that is reliable.
>
>[Kept rest of mail as I added Jan - hope he have some ideas to throw in].
I'd first of all need a better understanding
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:33:50PM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 02/03/2008 08:08 AM, Al Viro wrote:
> >
> > The reason why it didn't visibly bite us before is that usually __devinit...
> > just expanded to nothing (unless you disable HOTPLUG, which requires
> > EMBEDDED, which wasn't apparently
On 02/03/2008 08:08 AM, Al Viro wrote:
>
> The reason why it didn't visibly bite us before is that usually __devinit...
> just expanded to nothing (unless you disable HOTPLUG, which requires
> EMBEDDED, which wasn't apparently common enough for ppc64 builds).
>
> Suggestions?
This ugly hackset was
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:02:08PM +, Al Viro wrote:
> On ppc64 relocs => r/w, AFAICS. On other targets we might have any number
> of other rules.
And -fpic/PIC => (relocs => r/w) because of the DT_TEXTREL crap. Not
of immediate interest to the kernel though.
OG.
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On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:30:02PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> And I'm suprised to see that gcc thinks bar is writeable.
> If I try to assign it gcc error out as expected.
That's because "not modifiable" and "goes into r/o section" are not the
same thing. The former belongs to C and is target-in
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:02:34PM +, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:26:35PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:08:44PM +, Al Viro wrote:
> > > ; cat >a.c <<'EOF'
> > > const char foo[] __attribute__ ((__section__(".blah"))) = "";
> > > const char * const
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:26:35PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:08:44PM +, Al Viro wrote:
> > ; cat >a.c <<'EOF'
> > const char foo[] __attribute__ ((__section__(".blah"))) = "";
> > const char * const bar __attribute__((__section__(".blah"))) = "";
> > EOF
> > ; gcc
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:08:44PM +, Al Viro wrote:
> ; cat >a.c <<'EOF'
> const char foo[] __attribute__ ((__section__(".blah"))) = "";
> const char * const bar __attribute__((__section__(".blah"))) = "";
> EOF
> ; gcc -m32 -S a.c
> ; gcc -m64 -S a.c
> a.c:2: error: bar causes a section type
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