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

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Apr 10 2008 - 13:58:24 EST


Andrew Pinski wrote:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:07 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> 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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