Re: [patch] alpha 2.3.x fixes and crashes

Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Sun, 23 May 1999 09:37:15 -0700

On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 10:46:42AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> -union task_union init_task_union __attribute__((section("init_task")))
> - = { task: INIT_TASK };
> +union task_union init_task_union
> + __attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) =
> + { INIT_TASK(init_task_union.task) };

This section change is wrong, which is why you're getting oopsen --
you'd have had to make a corresponding change in the link script to
get the structure 16K aligned.

There's no point in making the change anyway.

r~

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