Re: Build error: `.exit.text' referenced in section `.rodata'

[Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:59:17AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> But if that's true then the whole basis for our section based discards
> is bogus, because the statement generating the jump table could be
> inside the actual function body instead of being inlined, so if it's
> failing on x86 as well, we likely need it fixed there too.

Correct.

> > It would be good, but in the meantime the 'noinline' fix seems to be
> > a most sensible option...
> 
> We can certainly add it as a short term option.  However, given the push
> in certain quarters to make even more use of sections as a means of
> discarding code, we're going to have to ask someone to fix the compiler.

Then maybe building with -fno-jump-tables option would be better solution.
I don't think that it will have a noticeable impact on code size or
performance, especially on x86.

So we need something like this (assuming gcc eventually gets fixed,
say gcc 4.5 ;)

KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(call cc-ifversion, -lt, 0405, \
			$(call cc-option, -fno-jump-tables))

Ivan.