Re: [PATCH] eliminate warnings in generated module files

[Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:16:35PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Some people are still using 2.95, I think anything past that is long since 
> unsupported and not worth worrying about.

[kanga:~] cat z.c
static char foo []
  __attribute__((unused))
  __attribute__((section(".data.foo")))
  = "asdfasdf";
[kanga:~] /usr/bin/gcc -Wall -c z.c
[kanga:~] /usr/bin/gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-linux/2.95.4/specs
gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)
[kanga:~] objdump -h z.o | grep foo
  3 .data.foo     00000009  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  00000040  2**0

Seems to work, both wrt the warning message and 
honoring the section directive.


r~