Re: Kernel Bug in 2.4.35 when compiled gcc>=4.2.0 and -march=c3

[H. Peter Anvin]

Willy Tarreau wrote:
> 
> I'm well aware of that, even in the example I wrote to reproduce the issue
> and posted to gcc's bugzilla, I clearly have one function prototype and a
> separate asm statement which contained a label with the function's name.
> 
> So in my opinion, the code above is not buggy. It's dirty (though I did
> not find how to produce the equivalent in a different manner).
> 

Well, top-level assembly is usually nasty.  Setting the section in the
assembly statement as you said is probably the only thing you *can* do.

I don't think there is any requirement that top-level assembly
statements get the section set to .text on their behalf.

	-hpa
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