linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jan 2016 11:06:24 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>
CC:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>,
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	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>, xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com,
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Subject: Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables

On 01/22/2016 05:44 AM, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> Something that confuses me is that gcc seems to give these sections the 
>> "aw" attributes which makes as complain.  This might be a gcc bug.
> 
> Workaround: use an (possibly empty) intializer:
> 
> struct foo {int i;};
> const struct foo
> __attribute__((used,section(".rodata.tbl.tablename.0"))) tablename[0] = {};
> 

And indeed that works.  Awesome!  Much better than having to do an
assembly hack.

	-hpa