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Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables

From "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables
Date 2016-01-22 20:10 +0100
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On 01/22/2016 05:44 AM, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> Something that confuses me is that gcc seems to give these sections the 
>> "aw" attributes which makes as complain.  This might be a gcc bug.
> 
> Workaround: use an (possibly empty) intializer:
> 
> struct foo {int i;};
> const struct foo
> __attribute__((used,section(".rodata.tbl.tablename.0"))) tablename[0] = {};
> 

And indeed that works.  Awesome!  Much better than having to do an
assembly hack.

	-hpa

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Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-01-21 21:30 +0100
  Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> - 2016-01-21 21:40 +0100
    Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> - 2016-01-21 22:40 +0100
      Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> - 2016-01-21 23:30 +0100
        Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-01-22 01:00 +0100
          Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> - 2016-01-22 01:30 +0100
      Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org> - 2016-01-22 09:20 +0100
  Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> - 2016-01-22 14:50 +0100
    Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-01-22 20:10 +0100
      Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> - 2016-01-22 23:00 +0100

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