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Re: linker-tables v5 testing

From Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: linker-tables v5 testing
Date 2016-12-01 06:30 +0100
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On Thu, 1 Dec 2016 16:04:30 +1100
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:15:27 -0800
> "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:38:16 +0100
> > > "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >  
> > >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 02:09:47PM +1100, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> 
> > >> What is wrong with that ? Separating linker table and section ranges is  
> > >
> > > It's not that you separate those, of course you need that. It's that
> > > you also separate other sections from the input section descriptions:
> > >
> > > -               *(.text.hot .text .text.fixup .text.unlikely)           \
> > > +               *(.text.hot .text)                                      \
> > > +               *(SORT(.text.rng.*))                                    \
> > > +               *(.text.fixup .text.unlikely)                           \

Ahh, you're doing it to avoid clash with compiler generated sections.
The usual way to cope with that seems to be to use two dots for your name.
.text..rng.*

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Re: linker-tables v5 testing "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2016-11-30 02:40 +0100
  Re: linker-tables v5 testing Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-11-30 04:20 +0100
    Re: linker-tables v5 testing "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2016-11-30 18:40 +0100
      Re: linker-tables v5 testing Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 04:00 +0100
        Re: linker-tables v5 testing "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2016-12-01 04:20 +0100
          Re: linker-tables v5 testing Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 06:10 +0100
            Re: linker-tables v5 testing Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 06:30 +0100
              Re: linker-tables v5 testing "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2016-12-01 17:40 +0100
                Re: linker-tables v5 testing "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2016-12-02 17:00 +0100
                Re: linker-tables v5 testing Nicholas Piggin <nicholas.piggin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-09 03:20 +0100
          Re: linker-tables v5 testing "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2016-12-02 21:30 +0100
  Re: linker-tables v5 testing Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-11-30 05:20 +0100

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