Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 26/26] x86, pkeys: Documentation | From | Paolo Bonzini <> | Date | Fri, 2 Oct 2015 13:49:48 +0200 |
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On 02/10/2015 00:48, Linus Torvalds wrote: > It's quite likely that you will find that compilers put read-only > constants in the text section, knowing that executable means readable.
Not on x86 (because it has large immediates; RISC machines and s390 do put large constants in the text section).
But at the very least jump tables reside in the .text seection.
Paolo
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