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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>
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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
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