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

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Tue Feb 02 2016 - 19:15:38 EST


On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 3:48 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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] = {};
>>
>
> Any forward progress on this?

Yes, I'll reply inline to my only concern.

Luis