Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] (updated, rolled up) make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:53:08 +0100 |
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Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> wrote:
> The purpose of these patches is to make kernel buildable > with "gcc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections". > > The problem is that with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections gcc > creates sections like .text.head and .data.nosave > whenever someone has innocuous code like this: > > static void head(...) {...} > > or this: > > int f(...) { static int nosave; ... } > > somewhere in the kernel. > > Kernel linker script is confused by such names and puts these sections > in wrong places. > > This patch renames all "magic" section names used by kernel > to not have this format, eliminating the possibility of such collisions. > > Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [FRV and MN10300]
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