Re: powerpc allyesconfig / allmodconfig linux-next next-20160729 - next-20160729 build failures

Segher Boessenkool
2016-08-04T17:06:41Z

On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 06:10:57PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday, August 4, 2016 9:47:13 PM CEST Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>
> > + __used \
> > + __attribute__((section("___kentry" "+" #sym ",\"a\",@note #"), used)) \
>
>
> I've just started testing this, but the first problem I ran into
> is that @ and # are special characters that have an architecture
> specific meaning to the assembler. On ARM, you need "%note @" instead
> of "@note #".

That comment trick (I still feel guilty about it) causes more problems
than it solves. Please don't try to use it :-)

Segher