On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:19:47PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:17:45PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > The more obvious solution is to remove the __initdata from the
> > declaration on line 545. Such usage of __initdata (and __init)
> > serves no purpose.
>
> Yes it does. If the variable is small, then the compiler may
> expect the variable to be placed in the .sdata section, and so
> be reachable by, say, a 16-bit gp-relative relocation.
>
> Now, this variable in particular may not be small enough for
> that, but the fact remains that the general rule should be that
> variables should be declared with their section attributes.
Sigh, which is contary to what Christoph told me. Fine, have it your
own way.
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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