linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pop previous section in alternative.c

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Message-ID: <de8d50360804101032p6c82ed33i686c13f0bfc70e8a@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:32:53 -0700
From:	"Andrew Pinski" <pinskia@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Andy Whitcroft" <apw@...dowen.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Rusty Russell" <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	"Glauber de Oliveira Costa" <gcosta@...hat.com>,
	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pop previous section in alternative.c

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:07 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>  Of course, The Right Thing[TM] would be for gcc to emit .pushsection ...
> .popsection around #APP ... #NO_APP.

Why??  GCC assumes that people don't do crazy things in their
inline-asm and the source did in this case.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski
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