linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86 : relocate uninitialized variable in init DATA section into init BSS section

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Message-ID: <47BE36B0.8070003@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:42:56 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86 : relocate uninitialized variable in init DATA
 section into init BSS section

Huang, Ying wrote:
> 
> I think another method is to add a new attribute into GCC to prepend or
> append something to section name instead of just to replace it, like the
> example as follow:
> 
> #define __initdata  __attribute__((section_append(".init")))
> 

Same difference, but less flexible.

	-hpa
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