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

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Message-ID: <47FE541C.90704@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:53:32 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andrew Pinski <pinskia@...il.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

Andrew Pinski wrote:
> 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.

Because even good people do bad things sometimes.

	-hpa

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