Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:16:57 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: clean up vdso-layout.lds.S |
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Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> >>> Why do we need *(.data .data.*) rather than *(.data*)? >>> *(.dynbss*)? >> I don't have any strong opinion here, but the former is exactly what the >> default linker script has. > > My general take on this is that we should know and deal with what the linker produces. > So if we only expect .data then .data.* could go into .broken so we catch it. >
That will break if we change to per-function sections.
-hpa
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