Re: [PATCH 15/15] modpost: convert modpost to use HEAD_TEXT_SECTIONmacro.

[Anders Kaseorg]

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> I have seen linkers that added a number after the section names
> in certain situations. Often this is due to mix of sections
> with different flags ("ax" versus no "ax").
> This is the background for the wildcard.
> 
> With your patchset we should not see any such users - but we 
> should then warn if they showed up anyway if we do not silently
> support them.

Right, that is exactly the purpose of my
  [PATCH] modpost: Check the section flags, not name, to catch missing 
  "ax"/"aw"
  <http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/26/503>
which is also the second patch in this thread (as [PATCH v3 2/3]).

This patch also catches some possible bugs that the existing check misses, 
even without -ffunction-sections, so it would be nice to get it merged 
independently.

Anders
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