Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:45:04 +0200 (MEST) | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | Re: non-modular 2.6 ppc kernels miscompiled by gcc-3.3.1? |
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On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:53:55 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:47:48PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: >> Notice __start___ex_table[]'s address: it's not 4-byte aligned. >> With gcc-3.2.3 it got an 8-byte aligned address in my 2.6 kernel. >> >> vmlinux.lds.S doesn't explicitly align __start___ex_table, so I >> simply put ". = ALIGN(4);" before it and Voila! now it works. > >ld will aling the section according to alingment requirements >of the symbols inside the section. >So what happens in your case is that . (current address) is >un-even. But ld alings the section to a 4-byte boundary, >due to one of the symbols inside the section. > >So the better fix is to define the lables inside the section, >(read: inside the two '{}'). > >Care to give my patch a check and report back.
Yes, your patch also works.
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