Re: non-modular 2.6 ppc kernels miscompiled by gcc-3.3.1?

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:47:48PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Notice __start___ex_table[]'s address: it's not 4-byte aligned.
> With gcc-3.2.3 it got an 8-byte aligned address in my 2.6 kernel.
> 
> vmlinux.lds.S doesn't explicitly align __start___ex_table, so I
> simply put ". = ALIGN(4);" before it and Voila! now it works.

ld will aling the section according to alingment requirements
of the symbols inside the section.
So what happens in your case is that . (current address) is
un-even. But ld alings the section to a 4-byte boundary,
due to one of the symbols inside the section.

So the better fix is to define the lables inside the section,
(read: inside the two '{}').

Care to give my patch a check and report back.

	Sam
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