Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:27:03 +0100 (BST) | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] frv: Remove duplicate output of .exit.data |
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On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, David Howells wrote:
> > When CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is unset the input .exit.data sections are copied > > twice to vmlinux. Remove the copy made to .init.text and keep one in > > .data only. > > No, they aren't. I believe the linker only makes one copy of each section, > and once a copy is inserted, all other attempts to make a copy of it are > ignored.
Fair enough -- a quick test shows you are right. Wouldn't it deserve a comment, though? I know hardly anybody dares looking into these scripts, ;-) but those who do, may not be sure this setup is intentional.
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