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SubjectRe: [PATCH] (updated, rolled up) make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> Here is the update against current Linus tree,
> rolled up into one patch.
>
> James Bottomley suggested a different naming scheme:
> instead of swapping parts (.text.head -> .head.text),
> prepend .kernel to our special section names.
> This patch implements his idea.

Why not '.linux'?

> ppc and v850 are dropped per comments from arch people.
> parisc and x86 had minor fixes. x86 fix added proper
> executable bits to a section:
>
> -.section ".text.head"
> +.section ".kernel.text.head","ax",@progbits
>
> Does arch/m68k/kernel/sun3-head.S need the same fix?

Sure, why not?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds


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