Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/22/2016 05:44 AM, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> Something that confuses me is that gcc seems to give these sections the 
>> "aw" attributes which makes as complain.  This might be a gcc bug.
> 
> Workaround: use an (possibly empty) intializer:
> 
> struct foo {int i;};
> const struct foo
> __attribute__((used,section(".rodata.tbl.tablename.0"))) tablename[0] = {};
> 

And indeed that works.  Awesome!  Much better than having to do an
assembly hack.

	-hpa