From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:00:30 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:34515 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20021626AbXJKOA2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:00:28 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9BE0Rvv005913; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:00:27 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l9BE06gE005901; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:00:06 +0100 Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:00:06 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Franck Bui-Huu , Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-mips Subject: Re: [RFC] Add __initbss section Message-ID: <20071011140006.GA2828@linux-mips.org> References: <470DF25E.60009@gmail.com> <20071011124410.GA17202@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 16964 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 02:35:20PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > I think gcc should probably put the jump table into a .subsection if > > a section was explicitly requested, at least for non-PIC code. > > Has anybody filed a bug report? The GCC maintainers may well not be > aware of the problem and some arcane ways of use exercised by Linux. Beofore applying the previously mentioned fixes I spoke to them but they were not very inclined to consider the gcc behaviour a bug. Ralf