From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix vmi time header bug
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:21:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F642F1.1040405@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070312223136.dc6969f3.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Really truly? I think we have a _lot_ of declarations which omit the section
> qualifier altogether. How come they don't all break too?
>
According to the report I have. Perhaps a bogus section qualifier does
more damage than an omitted one. I'll get gcc / linker version, but
this could be a combination of user error, a strange toolchain, and
perhaps a real bug somewhere.
> (ARM (at least) in fact does require the section tagging on the declaration as
> well as the definition, but we've thus far only fixed that in a couple of places
> which were causing breakage).
>
Yes, I was surprised by this as well, and I'm still skeptical about this
being the real cause. Still, this reportedly fixed the problem, and is
certainly not a bad thing.
Zach
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-13 6:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-12 22:58 [PATCH] Fix vmi time header bug Zachary Amsden
2007-03-13 6:31 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-13 6:21 ` Zachary Amsden [this message]
2007-03-13 6:46 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-03-13 12:45 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-13 13:59 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-13 17:32 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-13 17:53 ` Linus Torvalds
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