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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Kip Walker <kwalker@broadcom.com>
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Subject: Re: .section problems in entry.S
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:05:08AM -0800, Kip Walker wrote:

> I just investigated assembler warnings coming from
> arch/mips/kernel/entry.S (checked out as of 12/07 00:00 UTC), and
> noticed the following.  After expanding macros, you get something like:
> 
> 	.text
> 
> 	.section ".text.init"   (from __INIT)
> 
> 	.data			(from PANIC)
> 	.previous		(from PANIC)
> 	--> section is now .text.init
> 
> 	.previous		(from __FINIT)
> 	--> section is now .data, not .text as intended.
> 
> Perhaps .pushsection and .popsection should be used in some or all
> macros like this?
> 
> Or am I smoking crack?

Certainly not.  The problem is known and so far I've just hacked around
it more or less elegant.  But it's a trap and so I think we've got good
reasons to force people to upgrade to a newer assembler than the current
minimal version.  The question is which - I don't like frequent tool
upgrades.

  Ralf