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

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 07:46:25AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > So in summary valid section patterns are either
> > .section / .previous or .pushsection .section .popsection
> 
> The thing is, we'd be much better off with some sanity checking in the 
> assembler.
> 
> Which is likely not going to happen - oh well.

A simple way to detect it on the assembler level would be checking
that the section is the same after #NO_APP as before #APP

-Andi
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